War in Ukraine: Ukraine claims to have carried out its ‘most massive’ attack

A Ukrainian drone attack targeting an energy site caused a major fire in Russia on Tuesday, according to Russian authorities.

In the suburbs of Kazan, capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan (Volga), “a gas tank caught fire (…) following a drone attack,” the local government said on Telegram , assuring that “no one was injured” and specifying that the regional leader, Roustam Minnikhanov, went to the scene of the fire.

According to local media, which broadcast images of a large flame and a plume of black smoke rising into the sky, the attack targeted a liquefied gas depot near a chemical factory. Separately, “an industrial enterprise was damaged” by a drone attack in Engels, in the Saratov region, located about 700 kilometers southeast of Moscow and some 500 km from the Ukrainian border, wrote on Telegram regional governor Roman Boussarguine.