{"id":9730,"date":"2026-06-09T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=9730"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:42:00","slug":"ukraine-at-least-eight-dead-and-40-wounded-in-russian-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=9730","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: at least eight dead and 40 wounded in Russian strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least eight people have been killed and more than 40 wounded in the past 24 hours in Russian strikes in Ukraine, authorities said today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unable to achieve its objectives on the battlefield, Russia is stepping up its acts of terror against civilians<\/b>,&#8221; said Ukrainian diplomatic chief <b>Adriy Sibiha<\/b>, calling for &#8220;intensified pressure&#8221; on Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>After more than four years since the start of Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, shelling continues almost daily on both sides of the front and <b>diplomatic negotiations have reached a stalemate.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In Chuhuiv, in the Kharkov region, a Russian strike claimed the lives of a <b>22-year-old pregnant woman<\/b> and <b>two men, aged 56 and 70<\/b>, according to a newest account posted on Telegram by the regional governor <b>Olekh Sinekhubov<\/b>. According to the same source, in the city of Kharkiv itself, Ukraine&#8217;s second-largest near the border with Russia, the strikes wounded at least 15 people.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia launched a total of 166 long-range unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) and two missiles overnight, of which 146 drones were intercepted.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency response agency also revised upward the toll of a Russian strike yesterday in <b>Zaporizhzhya<\/b>, southern Ukraine, to two dead and 32 wounded.<\/p>\n<p>One man was also killed in the <b>Sumi<\/b> (north) district, another in the <b>Nikopol<\/b> (south) district and a third in that of <b>Hershon<\/b> (south) during yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least eight people have been killed and more than 40 wounded in the past 24 hours in Russian strikes in Ukraine, according to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9730","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\/9730","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=9730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}