{"id":12962,"date":"2026-06-26T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12962"},"modified":"2026-06-26T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:57:00","slug":"ukraine-launched-660-drones-toward-russia-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12962","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: Launched 660 drones toward Russia overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian armed forces are intensifying their strikes against <b>Russia<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Russian air defenses shot down 660 Ukrainian drones overnight, in one of the largest attacks since the outbreak of the war in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian drones targeted more than <b>ten Russian regions,<\/b> including Moscow, the Crimean Peninsula <b><\/b>, which has been annexed since 2014, \u2014where, two days ago, Kyiv destroyed a railway bridge that was \u201ckey\u201d to supplying the Russian army\u2014in the <b>Black Sea<\/b> and the <b>Sea of Azov.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At least 47 Ukrainian unmanned aerial systems were heading toward Moscow starting at 02:29, according to the latest report. \u201cEmergency response specialists are working at the crash sites,\u201d said the city\u2019s mayor <b>Sergei  Shabianin <\/b>on Telegram, without, however, mentioning any casualties or damage.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cmassive\u201d drone attack also targeted the Tula region, about 180 kilometers south of Moscow, according to Regional Governor <b>Dmitry Milaev<\/b>.\u00a0\u201cA woman was injured\u201d when a house was struck and \u201csuffered damage\u201d in the Shchekino area, Milayev reported via Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, the Ukrainian armed forces have escalated their campaign of strikes using long-range drones against Russia, <b>targeting primarily energy infrastructure, with the aim of depriving the Kremlin of the main source of revenue it uses to finance its war effort.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Last week, a Ukrainian attack caused a fire at an oil refinery in southeastern Moscow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian armed forces are intensifying their strikes against Russia.Russian air defenses shot down 660 Ukrainian &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}