{"id":14033,"date":"2026-07-07T12:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/14033\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:04:17","slug":"russia-accuses-ukraine-of-targeting-civilian-infrastructure-in-overnight-strikes-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/14033\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia accuses Ukraine of targeting civilian infrastructure in overnight strikes \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV \u2014 Ukrainian armed forces hit multiple targets in Russia on Monday night, damaging an airport in Belgorod and a microchip manufacturer building &#8220;electronic warfare and weaponry&#8221; for Russia in the Bryansk region.<\/p>\n<p>Aleksandr Shuvaev, acting governor in the Belgorod region, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/aleksandr_shuvaev\/533\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> three people were killed and 11 injured: &#8220;Although most of the missiles were intercepted, some struck civilian infrastructure,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/aleksandr_shuvaev\/533\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">he wrote on Telegram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian Army General Staff claimed responsibility for the strikes but said they only targeted military facilities: &#8220;Two defense industry facilities in the Bryansk region, the oil depot at Belgorod airfield, bridges and other enemy targets have been struck,&#8221; the army wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Russian defense ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mod_russia\/65362\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">claimed<\/a> it shot down 452 Ukrainian drones over 16 Russian regions and occupied Crimea, while Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mos_sobyanin\/20685\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> over 430 of those drones were heading towards the Russian capital before they were shot down by air defense.<\/p>\n<p>The strikes follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russian-attack-kyiv-kills-11-injures-46\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russia&#8217;s deadly attack<\/a> on the Ukrainian capital on Sunday night, which killed at least 12 people and injured at least 50. The attacks prompted President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to call for more Western support. &#8220;It is critically important that the world \u2014 first and foremost the United States and our European partners \u2014 come out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/newsletter\/brussels-playbook\/crunch-time-on-defense-spending\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NATO summit in Turkey<\/a> with strong decisions in support of our air defense,&#8221; Zelenskyy <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/2074026731581624489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">wrote on X<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KYIV \u2014 Ukrainian armed forces hit multiple targets in Russia on Monday night, damaging an airport in Belgorod&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[774,6160,775,6161,6162,370,237,777,778,213,291,653,5664,25,3307,26,352],"class_list":["post-14033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-air-defense","tag-airports","tag-borders","tag-bridges","tag-chemicals","tag-defense","tag-drones","tag-infrastructure","tag-mayors","tag-military","tag-missiles","tag-oil","tag-regions-cohesion","tag-russia","tag-sergei-sobyanin","tag-ukraine","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}