{"id":24336,"date":"2026-08-04T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/24336\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:24:23","slug":"ukrainian-drone-strikes-russian-beach-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/24336\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian drone strikes Russian beach resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Zakharova, a Russian foreign ministry spokesman, accused Ukraine of resorting to terrorism, the TASS state news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Russia accused Kyiv\u2019s forces last \u2060month of killing 11 people, including four children, in an attack on a holiday camp in a Russian-held part of Ukraine\u2019s Zaporizhzhia region.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict has led to a growing number of civilian deaths this year, the UN has reported, as <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/russia-ukraine-war\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the four and a half-year war<\/a> grinds on with no sign of a peace deal.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as Ukraine\u2019s former top military commander, \u200bnow ambassador to Britain, said on Monday \u200cthat there was no prospect of the country joining Nato.<\/p>\n<p>Valery Zaluzhnyi, quoted by media outlet Evropeiska Pravda, told a \u200bmeeting of Ukrainian ambassadors that Ukraine in no way met \u200bthe military standards needed to join the alliance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know Nato \u2060really well. For about 12 years, I personally worked on making \u200bsure we met Nato standards, and every year I heard tales \u200babout how we would join Nato any day now,\u201d he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, we will never actually join.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Zaluzhnyi said it was \u201cimpossible with the \u200blevel of development that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have \u2026 to \u200bjoin an organisation guided by World War II doctrines\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has enshrined in its constitution a strategic goal of membership of Nato and the European Union. It has, however, acknowledged that \u200bcurrently it would \u200bnot be \u2060welcomed into Nato by all its members.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Zaluzhnyi was dismissed as Ukraine\u2019s top commander in 2024 over differences \u200bwith Mr Zelensky on the war with Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maria Zakharova, a Russian foreign ministry spokesman, accused Ukraine of resorting to terrorism, the TASS state news agency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[426,907,25,6,11,26,85,35,81],"class_list":["post-24336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-crimea","tag-drones-aircraft","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-standard","tag-ukraine","tag-us-news","tag-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24336","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=24336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}