Vladimir Putin has issued a dire warning to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after the Russian metropolis of Kazan was focused in a spectacular drone assault yesterday, claiming: “they’ll face many occasions extra destruction”.

Putin launched into his rant after Ukrainian drones focused the Russian metropolis of Kazan and struck a significant gasoline depot for the second time in simply over every week, based on a senior Russian regional official, as a part of a “huge” cross-border assault on gasoline and power services that Kyiv says provide Moscow’s army.

The assaults got here days after Russia launched sweeping assaults on Ukraine’s already battered power grid, threatening to plunge hundreds of properties into darkness as winter tightens its grip over the area, and because the third anniversary of Russia’s all-out invasion approaches.

In remarks reported by Russian state-controlled information company Tass, Putin stated: “Whoever, and nevertheless a lot they attempt to destroy, they’ll face many occasions extra destruction themselves and can remorse what they’re attempting to do in our nation.”

He added: “We is not going to solely restore the harm that some try and trigger to us however can even transfer ahead even at a sooner tempo as we’re doing now.

“We are going to develop street networks, city and housing development.”

In complete, eight drones hit Kazan, within the Tatarstan area greater than 600 miles from the entrance line, yesterday. Native authorities stated there have been no casualties.

Individually, a hearth broke out on the Stalnoy Kon oil terminal in Russia’s southern Oryol area, native Governor Andrey Klychkov stated in a submit on the Telegram messaging app, including Russian forces downed 20 drones concentrating on “gasoline and power infrastructure” within the province.

Russian unbiased information outlet Astra shared video of claimed it stated was an explosion on the website, displaying an enormous orange blaze lighting up the night time sky.

Whereas the clip couldn’t be independently verified, it was later shared by a Ukrainian safety official who described it as footage from Oryol.

The official, Andriy Kovalenko of the Council of Nationwide Safety and Defence, claimed the Oryol gasoline depot provides Russian forces preventing in Ukraine and southern Russia, together with the Kursk province the place Ukrainian troops have dug in following a lightning incursion in August.

In accordance with Klychkov, the Russian native governor, the fireplace was extinguished hours later and didn’t trigger casualties or “important” harm.

Ukraine‘s army beforehand claimed to have struck the Stalnoy Kon terminal with drones on December 14, inflicting a “highly effective” blaze.