{"id":243135,"date":"2025-07-06T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T16:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243135\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T16:53:10","slug":"russia-and-ukraine-trade-drone-strikes-disrupting-air-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243135\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia and Ukraine trade drone strikes, disrupting air travel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia and Ukraine struck each other with hundreds of drones on Sunday, throwing Russian air travel in disarray, days after Moscow launched its largest aerial assault<\/a> in the more than 3-year-old war. <\/p>\n

Photos circulating on social media showed crowds huddling at Russian airports including key international hubs in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as hundreds of flights were delayed or canceled due to Ukrainian drone strikes on Saturday and overnight, according to Russia\u2019s Transport Ministry.<\/p>\n

The flight disruptions hit Moscow\u2019s Sheremetyevo and St. Petersburg\u2019s main Pulkovo airports. Other airports in western and central Russia also faced disruptions.<\/p>\n

Russian air defenses shot down 120 Ukrainian drones during the nighttime attacks, and 39 more before 2 p.m. Moscow time (11 GMT) on Sunday, Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said. It did not clarify how many had hit targets, or how many had been launched in total.<\/p>\n

Early on Sunday, Ukrainian drones injured two civilians in Russia\u2019s Belgorod region near the border, its Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian attacks came just days after Russia pummelled Kyiv with waves of drones and missiles overnight into Friday, in what Ukrainian officials called the largest such strike since Moscow\u2019s all-out invasion. The seven-hour onslaught killed at least two civilians, wounded dozens more and caused widespread damage, Ukraine said, while Moscow ramped up its push<\/a> to capture more of its neighbor\u2019s land.<\/p>\n

In total, Russia launched 550 drones and missiles across Ukraine that night, according to the country\u2019s air force. The barrages have coincided with a concerted Russian effort to break through parts of the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line, where Ukrainian troops are under severe pressure.<\/p>\n

Large-scale Russian drone strikes on Sunday injured three civilians in Kyiv and at least two in Kharkiv, Ukraine\u2019s second-largest city in the northeast, officials said. A large Russian attack involving Shahed drones also targeted port infrastructure in Mykolaiv in central Ukraine, according to local Gov. Vitaliy Kim. He reported warehouses and the port\u2019s power grid were damaged but there were no casualties.<\/p>\n

Hours later, Russia launched a glide bomb and a drone at the front-line town of Kostyantynivka in eastern Ukraine, killing four civilians and injuring a fifth, the prosecutor\u2019s office said. The drone struck a car in which a married couple were travelling, killing the 39-year-old woman and 40-year-old man on the spot, it said.<\/p>\n

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Follow AP\u2019s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia and Ukraine struck each other with hundreds of drones on Sunday, throwing Russian air travel in disarray,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[4179,332,7659,7661,657,7662,94468,94469,7660,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-243135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-general-news","9":"tag-russia","10":"tag-russia-government","11":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","12":"tag-ukraine","13":"tag-ukraine-government","14":"tag-vitaliy-kim","15":"tag-vyacheslav-gladkov","16":"tag-war-and-unrest","17":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114807334815046842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243135","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=243135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}