Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks throughout a press convention along with his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic on the Serbia Palace, in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026.
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A Ukrainian drone assault Monday on the Russian metropolis of Nizhnekamsk killed 12 individuals and wounded 39 others, authorities within the Tatarstan area stated.
Ukraine has focused Russian oil services with long-range drones nearly each day in current months. The barrage has triggered gasoline shortages in Russia, eaten into Russian refining capability, and unsettled the Russian public.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says it’s a marketing campaign to drive Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating desk and cease his greater than 4-year-old invasion.
Nizhnekamsk got here below a “huge” drone assault concentrating on industrial and civilian services on Monday morning, based on the press service of Tatarstan’s head, Rustam Minnikhanov. No additional particulars have been instantly accessible.
Ukrainian officers made no quick remark.
Nizhnekamsk is roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) east of the Ukrainian border and has a inhabitants of about 240,000. Town is a crucial oil refining hub, house to 2 refineries and a petrochemical plant.
Ukraine’s domestically developed long-range drones have flown growing distances deep inside Russia, with some now reaching Siberia, round 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) from the nations’ border.
“We do ship solely justified responses, and each Russian strike might be met with our response. Russia’s warfare might be felt increasingly more at their very own house – in Russia,” Zelenskyy stated late Sunday on social media.
“The one motive that is nonetheless persevering with is Russia’s unwillingness to finish this warfare.”
Russia has additionally often battered Ukraine from the air utilizing missiles, highly effective glide bombs and drones, hitting civilian areas and inflicting 1000’s of civilian casualties, based on the United Nations.
The World Well being Group’s European workplace stated Monday that one in every of its warehouses within the central Dnipro area of Ukraine had been struck twice in lower than 24 hours.
The assaults destroyed emergency provides price an estimated $500,000 that have been meant for front-line well being services, it stated in an announcement.
No casualties have been reported.
