{"id":10932,"date":"2026-04-19T13:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/19\/russia-strikes-ukraine-drone-sites-energy-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:30:20","slug":"russia-strikes-ukraine-drone-sites-energy-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/19\/russia-strikes-ukraine-drone-sites-energy-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Reports Strikes on Ukrainian Drone Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Ministry of Defense has announced that its forces have targeted energy infrastructure linked to the Ukrainian Armed Forces as well as several long-range drone launch sites.<\/p>\n<p>According to Russian media, the ministry stated that during this operation, specific centers used for launching long-range drones were struck. No further details have been released regarding the extent of damage or any possible casualties.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Ministry of Defense also claimed that within the past 24 hours, it intercepted and destroyed 274 Ukrainian drones, six aerial bombs, and one rocket from the HIMARS system. These claims have not been independently confirmed or denied by Ukrainian officials.<\/p>\n<p>Despite several rounds of negotiations and temporary ceasefires at various times, clashes between the two sides continue. The ongoing war persists even though Donald Trump, President of the United States, had previously promised to take action to end the conflict during the early days of his presidency\u2014a promise that remains unfulfilled as time passes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia says it struck Ukrainian energy infrastructure and drone launch sites amid ongoing conflict, with claims of intercepting hundreds of Ukrainian drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}