Highlights: Ukraine regularly carries out drone attacks or sabotage against factories, railways or refineries on Russian territory. On the other hand, it rarely claims to target infrastructure so far from the border. The drone attack targeted Tatarstan, and left thirteen people injured, according to the authorities of this Russian republic located more than 1,000 kilometers from Ukraine. Not a word has filtered out about the location of the targets this April 2 and yet, this is a first since Vladimir Putin sent his soldiers to Ukraine.

Ukraine regularly carries out drone attacks or sabotage against factories, railways or refineries on Russian territory. It rarely claims, however, to target…

Russia: Ukrainian drone attack hits industrial site in Tatarstan

Ukraine regularly carries out drone attacks or sabotage against factories, railways or refineries on Russian territory. On the other hand, it rarely claims to target infrastructure so far from the border. The drone attack targeted Tatarstan, and left thirteen people injured, according to the authorities of this Russian republic located more than 1,000 kilometers from Ukraine.

View of a damaged building following a Ukrainian drone attack, in Yelabuga, Russia, in this image released April 2, 2024. © Ostorozhno Novosti / Reuters

By: RFI Follow

With our correspondent in Moscow

Anissa El Jabri

As always, official Russian

communication

has one objective: to show that these

Ukrainian

attacks have no major consequences. Not a word has filtered out about the location of the targets this April 2 and yet, this is a first since

Vladimir Putin

sent his soldiers to Ukraine. These are two neighboring towns of 20 kilometers – Yelabuga and Nizhnekamsk – and above all, targeted at 1,500 kilometers from the Ukrainian borders.

Never before has Russian territory been hit so deeply. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov simply assured at midday that “

the Russian army is striving to minimize and then completely eliminate the threat

” of Ukrainian strikes in Russia.

It is up to the regional authorities to announce and manage difficulties, such as the number of injured: thirteen, including eight hospitalized, according to local authorities. Part of the Russian press notes the importance of the targeted sites. One of them would be an oil refinery, a target that has now become classic. But the other is cautiously described as

a “special economic zone

”.

Only the Kommersant

newspaper

highlights this: this area of Yelabuga has been sanctioned by the European Union since December

2023. Among these companies are, again according to the newspaper, a company producing Geran-2 drones, the local version of Iranian kamikaze drones, widely used by the Russian army in Ukraine.

Also read: Ukraine: a local official of the Russian occupation killed in the explosion of a car bomb

Russia: Ukrainian drone attack hits industrial site in Tatarstan

Russia: Ukrainian drone attack hits industrial site in Tatarstan

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