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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said Wednesday that a Ukrainian drone attack on Grozny damaged the premises of a special police unit fighting in Ukraine and also injured civilians, the second such attack on the North Caucasus Russian region.
“Today in the centre of the city they struck with a drone. They destroyed the regiment’s roof. Peaceful civilians were injured,” Kadyrov said during a televised question-and-answer session, RIA Novosti reported.
The regiment is a police special forces unit named after Akhmad Kadyrov, the current leader’s late father and predecessor, the state news agency wrote.
Earlier, Russian military bloggers published footage of a night-time explosion and images of a destroyed roof inside the regiment’s walled complex, attributing the attack to Ukraine.
In October, Kadyrov said a drone had hit a building of the Russian Special Forces University in Gudermes, used to train volunteers to fight in Ukraine.
Kadyrov brought a group of 12 prisoners of war captured in Ukraine to his annual question-and-answer session and interrogated them on air, RIA Novosti reported.
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