{"id":1152447,"date":"2026-08-16T21:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1152447\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T21:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:04:28","slug":"ukraine-launches-one-of-the-wars-largest-drone-attacks-killing-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1152447\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Launches One of the War\u2019s Largest Drone Attacks, Killing 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Russia also carried out an intense barrage against Ukraine over the weekend, killing two people at a steel plant in Kryvyi Rih, which is the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The plant, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, posted about the incident on <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/s\/ArcelorMittal_Ua\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow\">Telegram<\/a>, sharing that 13 employees were injured.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cAs a result of the attack, the main production facilities of energy and blast furnace production were damaged and the production processes of the plant were partially stopped,\u201d the company wrote.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Russian attacks also sparked fires throughout Kyiv, wounding six people. In total, at least seven people were killed and 51 injured in Russian strikes over the weekend, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/russian-attacks-across-ukraine-kill-at-least-7-injure-51\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">casualty figures<\/a> reported by regional Ukrainian authorities.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cWherever the Russians can reach with their ballistic missiles, they strike civilian infrastructure,\u201d Zelenskyy said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/2088892886045585559\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow\">on X<\/a> in the aftermath of the attacks.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">A NATO jet on an air policing mission also shot down an unidentified drone in Romanian airspace on Saturday\u2014the fourth unmanned aircraft shot down over \u2060the country this year, Romania\u2019s defense ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MApNRomania\/status\/2088849498432774591\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia also carried out an intense barrage against Ukraine over the weekend, killing two people at a steel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1152448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7654],"tags":[31239,2595,2000,299,28423,332,657,771],"class_list":["post-1152447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine","tag-drone","tag-drones","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-news-desk","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117107220782062766","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1152448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}