Russia condemns drone attack in Tatarstan as ‘terrorist act’

ISTANBUL

Russia on Saturday labeled a drone attack in Tatarstan as a "terrorist act" by Ukraine.

In a statement, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the attack targeted Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, causing damage to civilian infrastructure.

Drones attacked residential buildings in three districts in the city of Kazan, the mayor’s office said. There were no victims.

“Kiev is venting out its impotent anger for tangible military defeats on the peaceful population of Russia. The strike on the capital of Tatarstan is also a kind of revenge for the successful BRICS summit held in October this year, which demonstrated the power and influence of this association in the world, as well as an attempt to intimidate the population of one of the dynamically developing regions of our country,” Zakharova said.

“We are outraged by the demonstrative hypocritical silence of the ‘collective West’ and its mass media which immediately react to any extremist outbreak, and even more so to terrorist attacks in various parts of the world but pretend as if nothing is happening in the case of Russia,” she added.

Zakharova urged the international community to give a “tough assessment of the criminal acts by Zelenskyy’s junta.” “There is no justification for terrorism. It cannot be ignored. It deserves condemnation and zero tolerance,” she said.