{"id":19478,"date":"2026-05-16T09:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T09:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/19478\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T09:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T09:04:03","slug":"at-least-3-killed-63-injured-in-russian-attacks-across-ukraine-over-past-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/19478\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 3 killed, 63 injured in Russian attacks across Ukraine over past day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian attacks across Ukraine killed at least three civilians and injured at least 63 others over the past day, regional authorities reported early on May 16.<\/p>\n<p>Russia launched 294 drones overnight, Ukraine&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/62020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Air Force<\/a> said, adding that 269 of them were shot down. Direct hits by 20 drones were recorded at 15 locations, while falling debris was reported at nine sites.<\/p>\n<p>In Kherson Oblast, one person was killed and 23 injured, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/olexandrprokudin\/12983\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said<\/a>. Russian forces targeted residential areas, damaging five apartment buildings and 19 houses.<\/p>\n<p>Russian attacks in Zaporizhzhia Oblast killed one person and injured 21 others, Governor Ivan Fedorov <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/zoda_gov_ua\/60709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said<\/a>. Moscow&#8217;s forces carried out 850 attacks on 53 settlements in the region over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>In Donetsk Oblast, one person was killed and four injured, Governor Vadym Filashkin <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/VadymFilashkin\/15476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Sumy Oblast, seven people were injured, according to the regional military <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/Sumy_news_ODA\/42776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">administration<\/a>. Authorities reported destruction and damage to buildings, vehicles, and civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Russian strikes in Kharkiv Oblast injured five people and damaged civilian infrastructure, Governor Oleh Syniehubov <a href=\"http:\/\/t.me\/synegubov\/22016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were injured in Odesa Oblast, where Russian strikes also damaged port infrastructure, Governor Oleh Kiper <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/odeskaODA\/16089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Russian drone and artillery attacks in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast injured one person, Governor Serhii Lysak <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/dnipropetrovskaODA\/29447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian attacks across Ukraine killed at least three civilians and injured at least 63 others over the past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-19478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19478","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=19478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}