{"id":34681,"date":"2026-08-29T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T10:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/34681\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T10:24:08","slug":"russian-attack-hits-ukraines-kyiv-region-killing-at-least-27-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/34681\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian attack hits Ukraine&#8217;s Kyiv region, killing at least 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 27 killed after a Russian attack hits Ukraine&#8217;s Kyiv region<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787999048_317_056e7e21-e408-46df-8166-4d7c483923b8_1546533418.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Associated Press\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>KYIV, Ukraine \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">At least 27 people have been killed following a Russian attack on the Bucha district, close to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, officials said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Related video above: &#8216;Positive and productive&#8217;: Zelenskyy and Netanyahu meet President Trump at White House to discuss wars<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Tymur Tkachenko, head of the local regional military administration, said that at least 50 residential buildings had been damaged in the attack, which also sparked a large-scale fire that spread to homes and a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">In a statement, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a warehouse had been struck in the village of Myla \u201cfollowed by a detonation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">He did not give details on the site, but wrote in the same message that criminal proceedings had been opened on charges of official negligence.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">\u201cThere are regulations in place \u2013 ammunition cannot be stored near homes or other residential areas,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">The Ukrainian leader wrote that a care home for older people and people with disabilities and residential buildings were damaged.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">\u201cMore than 370 people have already been evacuated, and the evacuation is ongoing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">Almost constant air raids in Kyiv have now reached their third day, choking the economy in the Ukrainian capital and severely disrupting civilian life more than 4 \u00bd years after Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of its neighbor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 27 killed after a Russian attack hits Ukraine&#8217;s Kyiv region KYIV, Ukraine \u2014 At least 27&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5563,5646,465,12062,5622,704,4387,12063,6611,158,602,12061,25,12064,1249,993,26,33,152,314],"class_list":["post-34681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-air-raid","tag-ammunition","tag-attack","tag-bomb","tag-bucha","tag-conflict","tag-death","tag-disabilities","tag-kill","tag-kyiv","tag-missile","tag-myla","tag-russia","tag-senior-living","tag-sknd","tag-strike","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34681","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=34681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}