{"id":213000,"date":"2025-12-03T10:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/213000\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:38:10","slug":"from-odessa-to-kyiv-kerry-man-shares-first-hand-glimpse-of-a-nation-at-war-i-could-hear-explosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/213000\/","title":{"rendered":"From Odessa to Kyiv, Kerry man shares first-hand glimpse of a nation at war \u2013 \u2018I could hear explosions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ballyferriter native Tom\u00e1s Mac An T-Saoir pictured outside the an unfinished 20th-century Parus Hotel in the city of Dnipro in Ukraine.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/KN Ukraine 4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ballyferriter native Tom\u00e1s Mac An T-Saoir pictured outside the an unfinished 20th-century Parus Hotel in the city of Dnipro in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In an all too close-to-home sign of the risks facing anyone travelling across war-torn Ukraine, West Kerry man Tom\u00e1s Mac An T-Saoir revealed to The Kerryman on Monday that just hours after leaving the eastern-central city of Dnipro, a Russian missile strike hit the area, killing four people and injuring 40.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The attack also damaged numerous car service stations, businesses, an office building and close to 50 cars. Eleven of the injured remain in a serious condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ballyferriter native Tom\u00e1s Mac An T-Saoir pictured outside the an unfinished 20th-century Parus Hotel in the city of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,887,6,11,12,15,16,5,550,7,8,551,5445,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-213000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-fergus-dennehy","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-ukraine","23":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky","24":"tag-world","25":"tag-world-news","26":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115655207033489264","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}