{"id":159452,"date":"2025-06-05T05:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/159452\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T05:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:58:12","slug":"russia-says-it-will-repair-bombers-damaged-by-ukraines-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/159452\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia says it will repair bombers damaged by Ukraine&#8217;s drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian aircraft were damaged but not destroyed in a June 1 attack by Ukraine, and they will be restored, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in an interview with the state news agency TASS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The equipment in question, as was also stated by representatives of the Ministry of Defence, was not destroyed but damaged. It will be restored,&#8221; Ryabkov said.<\/p>\n<p>The United States assesses that Ukraine&#8217;s drone attack over the weekend hit as many as 20 Russian warplanes, destroying around 10 of them, two U.S. officials told Reuters, a figure that is about half the number estimated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin told U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:President Donald Trump;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Donald Trump<\/a> in a telephone conversation on Wednesday that Moscow would have to respond to the June 1 attack.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Reuters; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian aircraft were damaged but not destroyed in a June 1 attack by Ukraine, and they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[41264,11740,332,67390,67391,67389,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-159452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-drone-attack","9":"tag-ministry-of-defence","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-russian-aircraft","12":"tag-russian-warplanes","13":"tag-sergei-ryabkov","14":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114629227593936269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159452","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=159452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}