{"id":18200,"date":"2026-05-13T01:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/18200\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T01:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:53:10","slug":"ukraine-kindergarten-hit-as-russia-launches-over-200-drones-just-hours-after-brief-ceasefire-ended-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/18200\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine kindergarten hit as Russia launches \u2018over 200 drones\u2019 just hours after brief ceasefire ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia launched hundreds of drone strikes at Ukraine overnight, hitting a kindergarten and killing at least one, as both sides\u2019 fragile three-day ceasefire came to a sudden end, Ukrainian officials announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 drones were launched at Ukraine just hours after a White House-brokered ceasefire expired, despite hopes it would be extended.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_ny_post_us_news_articles_123\/91c94e778383cd72f6c11b4a7d3172f4.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A woman and 2-year-old girl are evacuated from the Ukrainian city of Druzhkivka amid drone attacks Tuesday. Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe proposed Moscow to extend the partial ceasefire beyond May 11. Instead, this night Russia launched over 200 drones against Ukraine, targeting civilian infrastructure, including a kindergarten, injuring at least six and killing at least one person,\u201d Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on X on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 216 drones launched by Russia, about 192 were downed or neutralized, according to Ukraine\u2019s air force.<\/p>\n<p>The warring sides\u2019 truce deal, agreed by both countries for May 9 to 11 to commemorate the anniversary of the Soviet Union\u2019s defeat of Nazi Germany, was part of a US-led push for peace amid more than four years of conflict.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump said Friday he hoped the truce would be extended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia itself chose to end the partial silence that had lasted for several days,\u201d Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on X on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_ny_post_us_news_articles_123\/1a0921315c79e8eb02c3e5de4ed0e38c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Here is the fiery aftermath of a Russian air attack in Dnipro, eastern Ukraine. State Emergency Service of Ukraine\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_ny_post_us_news_articles_123\/e7ce9bdd63f340a1208079ecbcc84a1e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Emergency workers put out a fire caused by a drone attack around Kyiv on Tuesday. AP<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine responded to the Russian strikes with attacks of its own, targeting the Russian city of Orenburg about 745 miles from Ukraine\u2019s border,\u00a0<a data-ylk=\"slk:reported the Kyiv Independent;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/russias-orenburg-and-chelyabinsk-reportedly-came-under-drone-attack\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reported the Kyiv Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another Ukraine attack was aimed at the Orsknefteorgsintez, one of Russia\u2019s largest regional oil refineries and responsible for 6.6 million tons of crude oil production annually, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>With Post wires<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia launched hundreds of drone strikes at Ukraine overnight, hitting a kindergarten and killing at least one, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[753,1331,1116,7478,5,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-18200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-drone-attacks","9":"tag-drone-strikes","10":"tag-eastern-ukraine","11":"tag-president-trump","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}