{"id":18043,"date":"2026-07-20T15:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/russia-shoots-down-917-ukrainian-drones-24-hours\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:30:21","slug":"russia-shoots-down-917-ukrainian-drones-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/russia-shoots-down-917-ukrainian-drones-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Claims to Have Shot Down 917 Ukrainian Drones in 24 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that its air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 917 Ukrainian drones across various regions within the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, eight guided aerial bombs were also neutralized during the same period. Russian military officials added that two drones of the Ukrainian armed forces were targeted and destroyed over the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p>This development occurs amid the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which began in February 2022. On February 21 of that year, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and three days later launched a large-scale military operation against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Following the outbreak of the war, the United States and Western countries imposed extensive sanctions on Moscow while simultaneously providing Kyiv with billions of dollars in military equipment and aid\u2014steps which have perpetuated and intensified the military confrontation between the two sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia claims its air defenses shot down 917 Ukrainian drones and destroyed eight guided bombs in 24 hours amid ongoing conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18043","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=18043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}