Russia-Ukraine war live: drones strike Russian factories more than 1,000km from Ukraine

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The time in Kyiv and Moscow is coming up to 11am. Russia has reported drone attacks over 1,000 km from Ukraine, according to Agence France-Presse.

On Tuesday, Russia said factories in Tatarstan, more than 1,100 kilometres (690 miles) from Ukraine, had been attacked with people wounded in the strikes.

“Drone attacks took place against factories in Tatarstan at Yelabuga and Nizhnekamsk,” Tatar leader Rustam Minnikhanov’s press service said on Telegram.

The attacks “did not cause serious damage and the working of the factories was not affected,” the statement said, adding: “Unfortunately in Yelabuga, there were people wounded”.

There is a special economic zone near Yelabuga that houses chemical and mechanical engineering and metal treatment factories. Nizhnekamsk has a large petrol refinery. Ukrainian intelligence source told Reuters that its military carried out the attacks.

Meanwhile Russian drones targeted energy facilities in overnight raids on Ukraine‘s Dnipropetrovsk and Kirovohrad regions, hitting a target in the latter, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday.
Separately, Ukraine‘s general staff said air defences had downed nine out of 10 drones that attacked the country overnight.