{"id":477688,"date":"2025-10-06T07:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T07:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/477688\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T07:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T07:59:15","slug":"russia-says-downed-251-ukrainian-drones-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/477688\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia says downed 251 Ukrainian drones overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1x1_spacer.png\" alt=\"A man walks near the covered bodies of the victims of a Russian drone and missile strike, lying near their destroyed house, amid Russia\u2019s attack on Ukraine, in the village of Lapaivka on the outskirts of Lviv.\" title=\"A man walks near the covered bodies of the victims of a Russian drone and missile strike, lying near their destroyed house, amid Russia\u2019s attack on Ukraine, in the village of Lapaivka on the outskirts of Lviv.\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1x1_spacer.png\" class=\"lead-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n                    A man walks near the covered bodies of the victims of a Russian drone and missile strike, lying near their destroyed house, amid Russia\u2019s attack on Ukraine, in the village of Lapaivka on the outskirts of Lviv.<br \/>\n                                          | Photo Credit: Reuters\n                                      <\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry said on Monday (October 6, 2025) that it had downed 251 Ukrainian drones overnight, in one of Kyiv\u2019s largest retaliatory attacks on its neighbour since Moscow invaded over three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past night, air defence alert systems intercepted and destroyed 251 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles,\u201d the ministry wrote on Telegram.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>It said Russian forces downed 40 drones over Crimea \u2014 annexed by Russia in 2014 \u2014 as well as 62 over the Black Sea.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Dozens more were shot out of the skies over the Kursk and Belgorod regions, as well as others, the ministry said.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Russia has kept up a near-constant barrage of drone and missile attacks \u2014 particularly on Ukraine\u2019s energy networks \u2014 as it grinds on with the full-scale invasion it launched in February 2022.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has increasingly responded with its own strikes targeting Russian oil refineries and other energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time-new\"> Published &#8211; October 06, 2025 10:51 am IST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man walks near the covered bodies of the victims of a Russian drone and missile strike, lying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[158733,2000,299,17211,158734,158732,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-477688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-251-ukrainian-drones-downed-by-russia","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-russia-ukraine-conflict","12":"tag-russia-ukraine-escalating-tensions","13":"tag-russian-defence-ministry-downed-251-ukrainian-drones","14":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115326167608265076","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477688","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=477688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}