{"id":66699,"date":"2026-08-17T15:40:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/66699\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T15:40:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:40:52","slug":"ukraine-kills-at-least-6-people-in-russia-after-launching-one-of-the-largest-aerial-assaults-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/66699\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine kills at least 6 people in Russia after launching one of the largest aerial assaults of war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine on Sunday launched one of its largest aerial attacks on Russia<\/a> since the start of the war, firing hundreds of drones and killing at least six people.<\/p>\n

This attack occurred as Ukrainian forces increasingly take the war into the very heart of Russia<\/a> nearly four and a half years into the full-blown conflict sparked by Moscow\u2019s invasion.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defense said it destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones overnight<\/a>, as some 600 drones were detected heading toward Moscow. A third of the drones were destroyed over the Russian capital region.<\/p>\n

\"LargeBurning Wildberries warehouses are seen following a Ukrainian drone attack in Koledino, Podolsk. via REUTERS<\/p>\n

\"AA firefighting helicopter flies above a burning Wildberries facility following a reported Ukrainian drone strike at the Koledino Industrial Park near Podolsk. STRINGER\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Five people were killed in a drone strike in Russia\u2019s southwestern Rostov region, as more than 150 drones damaged homes, hit a railway station and sparked a forest fire, according to local Governor Yury Slyusar.<\/p>\n

An 83-year-old man was killed after a Ukrainian drone hit a private home in the Moscow region, local Governor Andrey Vorobyov said.<\/p>\n

He also said a separate attack\u00a0had sparked a blaze at a warehouse owned by the Russian online retail giant Wildberries in the town of Podolsk.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Russia launched a missile attack on Ukraine\u2019s Kryvyi Rih, a major industrial city in the\u00a0Dnipropetrovsk region \u2014\u00a0killing two people and wounding 14 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on social media on Sunday.<\/p>\n

A further Russian strike killed one person in the northeastern historical industrial city of Sumy, Zelensky said.<\/p>\n

A man and a woman were also killed when a Russian strike hit their home in Ukraine\u2019s southern Zaporizhzhia region, according to local military chief Ivan Federov.<\/p>\n

Separate attacks on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, wounded six people, after a blaze tore through one of the city\u2019s largest book markets.<\/p>\n

\u201cWherever the Russians can reach with their ballistic missiles, they strike civilian infrastructure,\u201d Zelensky wrote.<\/p>\n

Russia said it had targeted a metallurgical plant in Kryvyi Rih and several military-industrial sites in Kyiv, including a manufacturing facility for long-range Flamingo missiles.<\/p>\n

These are increasingly key to Ukraine\u2019s long-range attacks on Russia, with a Flamingo missile used on Saturday to attack a rocket research and production center in Samara, some 560 miles from the Ukrainian border.<\/p>\n

With Post wires<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine on Sunday launched one of its largest aerial attacks on Russia since the start of the war,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[353,8,9,790,7,536,21197,106],"class_list":["post-66699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-drones","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-top-stories","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/117111611934492564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}