{"id":28852,"date":"2026-08-16T07:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T07:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/28852\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T07:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T07:49:12","slug":"russian-strikes-kill-one-in-ukraine-as-600-drones-target-moscow-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/28852\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian strikes kill one in Ukraine as 600 drones target Moscow region"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian strikes killed one person and wounded at least seven others in Ukraine on Sunday, as 600 Ukrainian drones targeted the Moscow region in a sustained overnight assault that left three people wounded.<\/p>\n

A woman was killed, and six people were wounded in a combined ballistic missile and drone attack on Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of Ukrainian<\/a> President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to the regional governor. Local defence council head Oleksandr Vilkul said the city had come under a \u201ccombined ballistic missile and drone attack\u201d and warned residents that further waves could follow.<\/p>\n

Russian forces struck two industrial sites in Kryvyi Rih, triggering rescue and firefighting operations, Vilkul said. The attack came as Russia continues to use long-range missiles and drones against Ukrainian cities and infrastructure.<\/p>\n

In Kyiv, authorities issued an air raid alert shortly before 2:00 am (2300 GMT), warning of a ballistic missile threat. AFP journalists in the capital heard several explosions shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the capital was \u201cunder ballistic missile attack\u201d and urged residents to remain in shelters. One person was wounded, and fires broke out at non-residential sites in the Obolonsky and Holosiivskyi districts, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Kremenchuk in the central Poltava region also came under attack, local officials said, although they did not immediately provide details of damage or casualties.<\/p>\n

600 drones targeted Moscow region<\/p>\n

On the Russian <\/a>side, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported a sustained overnight drone attack on Moscow and the surrounding region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian strikes killed one person and wounded at least seven others in Ukraine on Sunday, as 600 Ukrainian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[531,80],"class_list":["post-28852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-drone-attacks","tag-russia-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28852","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=28852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}