{"id":18839,"date":"2026-05-14T10:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/18839\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T10:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:05:35","slug":"daytime-russian-barrage-of-800-drones-kills-six-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/18839\/","title":{"rendered":"Daytime Russian Barrage of 800 Drones Kills Six in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A daytime Russian drone barrage mainly targeting western Ukraine killed at least six people and wounded dozens, the Ukrainian president said on Wednesday, in what appeared to be a pivot in Moscow\u2019s aerial bombardment strategy.<\/p>\n

Russia has been pounding Ukrainian cities for more than four years<\/a>, but it usually launches large-scale drone and missile attacks at night.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince midnight, at least 800 Russian drones have already been launched,\u201d President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media, adding that \u201csix people have been killed\u201d and dozens were injured, including children.<\/p>\n

AFP journalists in Kyiv saw residents sheltering in metro stations and heard air raid sirens ring out as the capital\u2019s mayor said air defense systems were operating against\u00a0drones.<\/p>\n

Zelensky accused Moscow of deliberately striking on the day of US President Donald Trump\u2018s visit to China.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt certainly cannot be called a coincidence that one of the longest massive Russian attacks against Ukraine takes place precisely at the time when the President of the United States arrived for a visit to China,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this difficult geopolitical moment, Russia is clearly trying to disrupt the overall political atmosphere and draw attention to its evil \u2013 seeking to do so at the expense of Ukrainian lives and Ukrainian infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier on Wednesday, he urged Trump to discuss ending Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine during meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in constant contact with our American partners,\u201d Zelensky told a summit in Romania.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thankful, and we are expecting that the issue of ending of the Russian war against Ukraine will be raised now as well, while the president of the United States is in China,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

In the western Ukrainian region of Rivne, authorities said three people had been killed and four wounded in drone attacks that also damaged civilian infrastructure and a residential building.<\/p>\n

One person was killed in the Zaporizhzhia region and two others in the southern Kherson region.<\/p>\n

At least eight people were wounded in the southern Black Sea region of Odesa and the central regions of Khmelnytskyi and Cherkasy.<\/p>\n

Kyiv\u2019s military intelligence warned earlier that Russian forces had launched a \u201cprolonged air strike against critical facilities in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Russia, officials said Ukrainian attacks killed two people in the border Bryansk region.<\/p>\n

Local authorities said a drone in the border village of Stara Pogoshch killed one man.<\/p>\n

Another man was killed in an attack that hit the territory of a post office in the town of Sevsk, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A daytime Russian drone barrage mainly targeting western Ukraine killed at least six people and wounded dozens, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[321,68,5,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-18839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-conflict","9":"tag-drones","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839","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=18839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}