{"id":17981,"date":"2026-07-20T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/russia-shoots-down-5000-ukrainian-drones-in-one-week\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:30:18","slug":"russia-shoots-down-5000-ukrainian-drones-in-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/russia-shoots-down-5000-ukrainian-drones-in-one-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Claims to Have Shot Down Over 5,000 Ukrainian Drones in One Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Ministry of Defense has announced that its air defense forces shot down 5,083 Ukrainian drones over the past week, a figure that highlights the intensifying aerial attacks in the ongoing conflict between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, the highest numbers of drones shot down were recorded on July 13 and 16, with 926 and 802 drones targeted respectively on those days.<\/p>\n<p>Russia had previously stated that, as part of its military operations, it targeted drone production workshops in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Russia-Ukraine war, which began in February 2022, has recently seen an increased use of drones by both sides, with aerial assaults becoming one of the primary methods of engagement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia claims it shot down over 5,000 Ukrainian drones in one week amid rising aerial attacks in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17981","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\/17981","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=17981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}