No casualties were recorded so far after a drone attack in Russia's Kazan city, the office of the Tatarstan republic's leader Rustam Minnikhanov said.
"According to latest information reported from the field to Tatarstan head Rustam Minnikhanov, there have been eight drone strikes so far, including one targeting an industrial facility, one [intercepted] above the river and six in a residential area. As far as we know at the moment, nobody was killed or injured. Workers at industrial facilities have been evacuated and sheltered," the statement read.
The office specified that the drone that targeted the industrial facility failed to hit it.
Temporary restrictions were introduced in Kazan's airport on Saturday morning for security reasons, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) said, specifying that "the airport has halted both departures and arrivals."
The airport of Izhevsk in the neighboring region of Udmurtia also halted arrivals and departures out of safety considerations prompted by the drone attack in Kazan, regional head Alexander Brechalov said on Telegram. Temporary flight restrictions were also introduced briefly in the airport of the city of Saratov and have since been lifted, Rosaviatsiya said.
The Kazan mayor's office announced that all public events were canceled in Tatarstan's capital city for the next two days to ensure safety.
Tatar leader Rustam Minnikhanov denounced the attack targeting civilian areas.
"Today, Kazan was subjected to a major drone attack. If previously, industrial facilities were targeted, now the enemy is targeting civilians in their homes in the morning," the official said on Telegram, adding that an operational headquarters had been set up on the site, and residents had been relocated to temporary accommodations.
Later on Saturday, Rosaviatsiya stated that restrictions introduced in Kazan's airport for security reasons had been lifted and that a total of five flights had been redirected to back-up airports in other cities in the meantime.