{"id":306487,"date":"2025-07-31T11:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306487\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:44:14","slug":"bbc-verify-live-verifying-drone-and-missile-strikes-in-ukraine-and-tracking-government-housing-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306487\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Verifying drone and missile strikes in Ukraine and tracking government housing pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verifying footage of strikes on Ukrainepublished at 10:11 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>10:11 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\/07\/b5c4d397-173c-4494-9136-e8dc366915d0.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Richard Irvine-Brown<\/strong><br \/>BBC Verify journalist<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;re reviewing images out of western Kyiv, Ukraine\u2019s capital, following reports of overnight drone and missile strikes killing six people and injuring dozens. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">President Volodymyr Zelensky and Kyiv mayor Vitality Klitschko are among those sharing images from the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019re confident the material posted by Zelensky is from this morning. The images haven\u2019t appeared publicly before and the weather matches. We\u2019ve also geolocated the partially collapsed building seen in the video.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A still image of a partially collapsed building\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/edbdc2d4-d0af-45d7-ae4f-b98d09ed8bda.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"848\" height=\"480\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, State Emergency Service of UkraineImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This image was posted on Telegram this morning by President Zelensky, and geolocated to a block in western Kyiv<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;re now turning our attention to a video posted by Klitschko &#8211; as well as images reportedly from Bucha on the Kyiv outskirts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, there are reports that Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine has been taken by Russian forces. The town has been the focus of intense Russian attacks since February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At least two open source-focused websites have reported Russian flags being flown there. The city is located on route to a larger industrial area of the Donbas and is seen as strategically important. We saw many images from there as a staging post for the Ukrainian army in their defence of nearby Bakhmut in 2023. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the presence of flags alone do not mean control has been taken. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019ll continue to review images from Chasiv Yar and elsewhere in Ukraine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Verifying footage of strikes on Ukrainepublished at 10:11 British Summer Time 10:11 BST Richard Irvine-BrownBBC Verify journalist We&#8217;re&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-306487","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114947677529788267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306487","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=306487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}