Plans retaliation

Zelenskyi threatens air strikes against Russia

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi has threatened further attacks against military facilities in Russia in retaliation for Russian airstrikes. "We will definitely continue to attack Russian military targets with drones and missiles," he said in his evening video address from Kiev on Saturday.

Ukraine is using more and more self-produced weapons. It is against "precisely those military bases, the Russian military infrastructure, which is being used for this terror against our people", said Selensky. By terror, he meant the latest Russian airstrikes. In Kiev, clean-up operations had only just been completed following a ballistic missile attack on Friday, the President said.

Cancer clinic in Kherson hit by missile
On Saturday, a cancer clinic in Kherson in the south of the country was hit. "Fortunately, there were no casualties: People were in the shelter, patients and medical staff," said Selenskyj. But the Russian side knows exactly how important the specialist hospital is.

In the past week, Russia has used more than 550 glide bombs, almost 550 combat drones and more than 20 missiles of various types against Ukraine, Selenskyj wrote on X (formerly Twitter; see post below).

His country has been defending itself against a large-scale Russian invasion for almost three years. In recent weeks, Ukraine has stepped up attacks in Russia using both its own and Western weapons systems. The targets were mostly military facilities, supply routes or industrial plants.

Drone attack on Russian megacity
In an attack on the megacity of Kazan, 1100 kilometers from Ukraine as the crow flies, Ukrainian drones also flew into inhabited high-rise buildings on Saturday. No details were given about possible military targets in the towers.