Republic of Tatarstan
Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Kiev regime’s terrorist attack on Kazan
On the morning of December 21, the neo-Nazi Kiev regime committed another terrorist act by a cynical drone attack on residential blocks and purely civilian infrastructure in Kazan. A total of eight fixed-wing drones were used, three of which had been downed by air defences and another three jammed by the EW systems. Two drones were recorded to have hit a 37-storied Lazurnye Nebesa (Azure Skies) residential apartment complex damaging the building. Two more apartment buildings have been damaged, a fire in one of them has been contained. The damage is being assessed. According to preliminary reports, there are no casualties. Kazan’s authorities are providing the residents with necessary assistance. It has been established that Bandera followers also targeted an industrial enterprise which did not suffer any damage.
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. It is no coincidence that all Ukrainian media and Telegram channels post images from Kazan with sadistic ‘pleasure,’ accompanying them with lewd verbal effusions. This indicates the inhuman essence of the regime of the ‘overdue president.’
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.
We urge the international community again to give a tough assessment of the criminal acts by Zelensky’s junta. There is no justification for terrorism. It cannot be ignored. It deserves condemnation and zero tolerance.