{"id":11989,"date":"2026-05-02T17:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/02\/russia-destroys-140000-ukrainian-drones-captures-miropoliye-sumi\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T17:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:15:24","slug":"russia-destroys-140000-ukrainian-drones-captures-miropoliye-sumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/02\/russia-destroys-140000-ukrainian-drones-captures-miropoliye-sumi\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Claims Destruction of 140,000 Ukrainian Drones and Capture of Miropoliye in Sumi Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that its forces have captured another settlement in the Sumi region and simultaneously destroyed 505 Ukrainian drones. The ministry claimed that since the start of Russia&#8217;s &#8220;special military operation,&#8221; Russian forces have destroyed a total of more than 140,000 Ukrainian drones.<\/p>\n<p>According to the published report, the settlement of &#8220;Miropoliye&#8221; in the Sumi region has fallen to Russian forces. The Sumi region is located in northeastern Ukraine and has witnessed heavy fighting between the two sides in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Ministry of Defense also stated that the country\u2019s air defense systems have intercepted and destroyed five guided aerial bombs, two HIMARS missiles, and 505 drones belonging to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The report further indicated that military facilities, military airfields, and port infrastructure used by Ukrainian armed forces have also been targeted by Russian attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry additionally claimed that 1,195 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in recent clashes. So far, Ukrainian officials have not officially responded to these claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia claims to have destroyed over 140,000 Ukrainian drones and captured Miropoliye in the Sumi region amid ongoing conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11989","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\/11989","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=11989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}