Ukrainian drone strikes on a city in Russia’s Tatarstan region, more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) from Ukraine, hit a residential building on Friday, Russian officials said, forcing cancellations of state holiday celebrations.
Kyiv’s army said it struck the major TANECO oil refinery in Tatarstan, as well as a factory producing synthetic rubber for use in ballistic missile production in Togliatti, on the Volga River in the Samara region.
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Ukraine has upped its strikes on Russia, which it says is fair retaliation for more than four years of Moscow’s full-scale offensive, sending drones into Russia as far as the Urals.
The mayor of Nizhnekamsk – an industrial city of some 240,000 people by the Kama River in the east of the republic of Tatarstan – said the city had been attacked.
