{"id":5965,"date":"2026-05-17T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:28:00","slug":"massive-strike-with-hundreds-of-ukrainian-drones-in-moscow-and-russian-regions-dead-wounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5965","title":{"rendered":"Massive strike with hundreds of Ukrainian drones in Moscow and Russian regions &#8211; Dead, wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">Moscow<\/a> <b>Moscow <\/b>and 13 other areas <b>received heavy airstrikes from Ukraine<\/b>, with <b>three<\/b> <b>dead<\/b> and extensive <b>damage<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Many areas of <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"59\">Russia<\/b>, as the country&#8217;s forces faced <b>one of the most widespread air strikes since the start of the war.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The Russian Defense Ministry said that overnight <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"267\">air defense units<\/b> <b>intercepted and destroyed a total<\/b> of <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"335\">556 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (drones)<\/b>. The shootdowns occurred <b>over 14 Russian regions<\/b>, annexed Crimea, and the Black and Azov Sea regions, with updates being provided via the Max app.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Moscow<\/b> and its surrounding region took the brunt of the raid, with authorities recording <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"39\">three civilian deaths<\/b> and <b>17 injuries<\/b>. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Moment a Ukrainian drone crashes into a residential building in Moscow. https:\/\/t.co\/vEcAt6Pf5M pic.twitter.com\/q0ZEdHpV2R<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Woofers (@NotWoofers) May 17, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Regional Governor Andrei Vorobyov said that defense forces were intensively activated after 03:00 in the morning (local time). <b>From falling debris, two workers died<\/b> when a house under construction in a village in the region was hit, while <b>a woman was killed by a hit on her home in the Khimki region<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Meanwhile, the Russian capital&#8217;s mayor, <b>Sergey Sobyanin<\/b>, disclosed that there was <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"573\">material damage to apartment buildings<\/b>, as well as the <b>injury of 12 workers at a construction site<\/b> near a refinery.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">This massive Ukrainian operation manifested itself as a <b data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"49\">retaliation by Kiev<\/b>, days after <b>Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital<\/b> that had caused the <b>death of at least 24 people<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow and 13 other regions were hit by a heavy airstrike from Ukraine, resulting in three deaths and extensive damage.<br \/>\nIn a state of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5965","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\/5965","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=5965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}