Seventeen people were killed and forty-four injured in a massive Russian missile and drone barrage targeting Kyiv and the surrounding region between Tuesday and Wednesday, with no incoming missiles intercepted. <\/p>\n
Russia attacked Ukraine overnight with twenty-eight missiles and 115 drones, according to the Ukrainian air force, which reported that none of the missiles were intercepted. Latest data from the attacks on Kyiv and the Kyiv region between Tuesday and Wednesday, August 4 and 5, confirmed seventeen deaths and forty-four injuries.<\/p>\n
The air force detailed that Kremlin forces deployed four Zircon\/Oniks anti-ship missiles launched from the Kursk and Rostov oblasts, alongside twenty-four Iskander-M\/S-400 ballistic missiles fired from the Bryansk and Kursk oblasts. Additionally, 115 strike drones operated over Ukraine, the majority powered by jet engines.<\/p>\n
The Ukrainian military shot down or neutralized ninety-eight drones. The main target of the attacks was the Kyiv region, defended by Ukrainian aviation, air defense, electronic warfare units, unmanned system detachments, and mobile fire groups.<\/p>\n
According to preliminary data as of 8:30 a.m., air defenses intercepted or neutralized ninety-eight enemy Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas, and other types of drones across the north, south, and east of the country. The air force reported missile impacts and seventeen strike drone hits across twenty-six locations, while debris from intercepted targets fell in six locations.<\/p>\n
Air raid sirens in Kyiv sounded after midnight. Telegram monitoring channels repeatedly warned of ballistic missiles flying toward the city from Russia, and a series of loud explosions were heard across the urban area.<\/p>\n
Five people were killed and six injured in a Ukrainian strike on a warehouse facility in the Moscow region, as announced on Tuesday by Moscow Oblast Governor Andrey Vorobyov.<\/p>\n
Ukraine also struck warehouses located near St. Petersburg and in the Tver region. The Russian online retail platform Wildberries reported that its warehouse in the Leningrad region caught fire and employees were evacuated. The Ukrainian military shelled a total of three warehouses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Seventeen people were killed and forty-four injured in a massive Russian missile and drone barrage targeting Kyiv and the surrounding region between Tuesday and Wednesday, with no incoming missiles intercepted. Massive Russian Missile and Drone Barrage Russia attacked Ukraine overnight with twenty-eight missiles and 115 drones, according to the Ukrainian air force, which reported that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-and-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}