Putin threatens Kyiv with destruction… a war of marches erupts between Russia and Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to wreak more destruction on Ukraine, following a drone attack on a residential tower in the city of Kazan.
Moscow accused Kiev of being behind Saturday’s attack, which hit a high-rise building in the city located about 1,000 kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border.
Video footage spread on social media platforms showed at least one drone crashing into the luxurious glass building, causing a huge fireball to erupt.
The Russian authorities did not announce any casualties as a result of the accident.

Increasing air attacks

“Whoever and no matter how much they try to destroy, they will face double destruction, and they will regret what they are trying to do in our country,” Putin said in a televised speech on Sunday.
Putin was speaking to the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, where Kazan is located, via video communication technology during the inauguration ceremony of a road.
The strike on Kazan was the latest in a series of escalating air attacks in the war between Russia and Ukraine, which is approaching the completion of its third year.

Dropping 52 marches

The Ukrainian air defenses shot down 52 out of 103 enemy drones launched by Russia on Ukrainian territory last night, the Ukrainian Air Force announced.
She said in a statement on the Telegram application on Sunday, “Russian forces launched attacks on Ukraine during the night, using 103 drones, which were launched from the regions of Bryansk, Melrovo, Orel, Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and Berdyansk.”
As well as an Iskander-M ballistic missile launched from the Crimean Peninsula towards the Kherson region, according to the Ukrainian National News Agency “Ukrinform”.

Unidentified models

The Ukrainian statement reported that the attack was repelled by air defense and aviation units, electronic warfare units, and mobile fire teams of the Ukrainian Air Force and Air Defense.

The statement said that by 00:10 on Sunday morning, Ukrainian air defenses had shot down 52 Shahed drones and other unidentified models in the regions of Woltava, Sumy, Kharkov, Kiev, Chernigov, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Zhytomir, Dnepropetrovsk, Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Zaporizhya.
The statement added that as a result of the use of electronic warfare, 44 enemy drones deviated from their course and did not cause any damage on the ground.
While another drone left Ukrainian airspace, heading to Belarus.
The statement said that the attacks resulted in damage to private institutions, residential buildings and other property in the Kherson, Mykolaiv, Chernigov, Sumy, Zhytomir and Kiev regions.