{"id":186253,"date":"2026-06-02T18:48:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=186253"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:48:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:48:40","slug":"at-least-18-people-killed-dozens-wounded-in-russian-attacks-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/at-least-18-people-killed-dozens-wounded-in-russian-attacks-on-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 18 people killed, dozens wounded in Russian attacks on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles against Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight, killing at least 18 civilians and wounding more than 100, authorities said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The damage trapped some people under the rubble of apartment buildings. Emergency crews digging through the wreckage pulled out the body of a three-year-old child, and the bodies of a mother and her eight-year-old son in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, officials said.<\/p>\n

The attack stretched from night into day and the boom of explosions reverberated across cities. Officials said 12 people were killed in Dnipro and six in Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Kyiv residents had been on edge for days after Russia warned that a massive aerial attack was coming and urged foreign diplomats to leave the Ukrainian capital. None appeared to heed the call.<\/p>\n

“A large-scale attack and an explicit statement by Russia: if Ukraine is not protected from ballistic missiles and other missile strikes, those strikes will continue,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in response to the attack, urging more support from the U.S. and European countries.<\/p>\n

The Russian strategy seeks to take advantage of Ukraine’s shortage of U.S.-made Patriot air defence missiles, with international stocks depleted by the Iran war. That has left civilians especially vulnerable to the Russian ballistic missile barrages, even as air defences stop most of the attack drones.<\/p>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin has stepped up Moscow’s aerial campaign against Ukraine, with Russian forces recently launching a powerful hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile for only the third time in the four-year war.<\/p>\n

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Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles against Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight, killing at least 18 civilians and wounding more than 100, authorities said Tuesday. The damage trapped some people under the rubble of apartment buildings. Emergency crews digging through the wreckage pulled out the body of a three-year-old child, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133","service":"facebook","timestamp":1780415438,"status":"error"},{"account":"twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521","service":"twitter","timestamp":1780415439,"status":"error"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186253"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186257,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186253\/revisions\/186257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}