{"id":15888,"date":"2023-05-04T18:24:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T13:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=15888"},"modified":"2023-05-04T18:24:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T13:24:58","slug":"ukraine-shoots-down-18-out-of-24-russian-drones-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/ukraine-shoots-down-18-out-of-24-russian-drones-overnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine shoots down 18 out of 24 Russian drones overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine shoots down 18 out of 24 Russian drones overnight. Ukrainian air defences said they downed 18 out of 24 kamikaze drones that Russia launched in a pre-dawn attack on Thursday.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Kyiv city administration said that all missiles and drones targeting the Ukrainian capital for the third time in four days, have been destroyed.<\/p>\n

“The Russians have attacked Kyiv using Shahed loitering munitions and missiles, likely the ballistic type,” the administration said.<\/p>\n

Out of 15 Shahed kamikaze drones fired at the Black Sea coastal city of Odesa, air defences destroyed 12, while three struck a university compound. There were no casualties, the Ukrainian southern military command said.<\/p>\n

Russia has regularly bombarded Ukraine since October last year, striking at a variety of targets. The latest blasts were reported less than 24 hours after Kyiv said 21 people died in a Russian strike on the city of Kherson.<\/p>\n

Zelensky rejects allegations of attack on Putin<\/strong><\/p>\n

The incident comes a day after the rebuttal by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, of Moscow\u2019s claim that his country attempted to assassinate Russian leader Vladimir Putin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0Former Russian president warns of war if Putin arrested<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“We didn’t attack Putin […] We fight on our territory, we are defending our villages and cities,” Zelensky had told reporters at a press conference with Nordic leaders in Helsinki on Wednesday<\/p>\n

“We don\u2019t attack Putin or Moscow. We don\u2019t have enough weapons for this,” he added.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Russia said it had shot down two drones targeting Putin\u2019s Kremlin residence in what it called a Ukrainian “terrorist” assassination attempt.<\/p>\n

“The devices were put out of action,” a Kremlin statement said.<\/p>\n

Moscow said Putin was not hurt and there were no casualties.<\/p>\n

Asked about why Moscow would accuse Kyiv, Zelensky replied, “Russia has no victories.”<\/p>\n

“He (Putin) can no longer motivate his society and he can no longer send his military to die for nothing,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukraine shoots down 18 out of 24 Russian drones overnight. Ukrainian air defences said they downed 18 out of 24 kamikaze drones that Russia launched in a pre-dawn attack on Thursday. In a statement, Kyiv city administration said that all missiles and drones targeting the Ukrainian capital for the third time in four days, have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[1113,8354,1062,5744,8900],"class_list":["post-15888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-kremlin","tag-kyiv","tag-moscow","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}