{"id":228983,"date":"2025-07-01T09:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T09:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/228983\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T09:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T09:52:13","slug":"bbc-verify-live-fires-and-damage-in-russian-occupied-ukraine-after-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/228983\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Fires and damage in Russian-occupied Ukraine after strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authenticating aftermath footage of strikes in Russian-occupied Ukrainepublished at 09:55 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>09:55 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/8352ea95-a40c-4617-82ed-2f8a2c099aea.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Emma Pengelly<\/strong><br \/>BBC Verify journalist<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A fire is seen being put out after an apparent strike\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5652180c-89a1-4aba-a150-1655a04c05a1.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"523\" height=\"294\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Telegram<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019re looking into reports of Ukrainian strikes being carried out in parts of Russian-occupied Ukraine overnight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So far we\u2019ve verified five videos filmed in the hours of darkness, which show the aftermath of an attack in the city of Donetsk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One shows emergency workers climbing over debris and rubble of a destroyed building. Other footage shows two buildings on fire in Pratsi Avenue, one of them a multi-storey block, and first responders trying to put out flames. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A further clip, which we have not yet verified, appears to show a possible moment of impact &#8211; a fiery explosion is visible, and you can hear what sounds like a blast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local Ukrainian media are reporting that a Russian military site was struck. The Moscow-installed leader of the region claims civilians were harmed in the attack, and says one woman was killed while a teenage boy and man were injured. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We have not been able to confirm those specific claims, but we have verified a video which appears to show a lifeless body covered by a sheet near the scene of the fire and damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defence has not yet commented on the reported attack in Donetsk, but has said about 60 drones were downed in Crimea and parts of Russia overnight on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authenticating aftermath footage of strikes in Russian-occupied Ukrainepublished at 09:55 British Summer Time 09:55 BST Emma PengellyBBC Verify&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-228983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228983","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=228983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}