{"id":26203,"date":"2025-04-17T01:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T01:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/26203\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T01:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T01:17:16","slug":"russia-strikes-ukrainian-port-city-of-odesa-hours-after-nato-secretary-generals-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/26203\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia strikes Ukrainian port city of Odesa, hours after NATO Secretary General’s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At least three civilians have been injured following Russian drone attacks on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa. <\/p>\n

The attack started fires and caused extensive damage to local infrastructure with a church and pharmacy among the damaged buildings, regional authorities reported. <\/p>\n

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Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched 97 drones early Tuesday morning, of which 57 were shot down.<\/p>\n

The drone attack against Odesa was followed by the shelling of the port city of Kherson on Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n

The strike resulted in one fatality and at least three injuries, according to Ukraine’s Emergency Services. <\/p>\n

Last week, the Russian military received international condemnation for the deaths of 34 civilians in the north-eastern town of Sumy while celebrating Palm Sunday.<\/p>\n

The attacks come only hours after NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte finished a surprise visit to Odesa where he met with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. <\/p>\n

“I’m here today because I believe Ukraine’s people deserve real peace, real safety and security in their country, in their homes,” Rutte said, adding that he supported ceasefire talks in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADVERTISEMENT At least three civilians have been injured following Russian drone attacks on the Ukrainian port city of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,15964,2992,2821,15965,332,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-26203","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-kherson","11":"tag-mark-rutte","12":"tag-nato","13":"tag-odessa","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114350669432891683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26203","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=26203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}