{"id":18959,"date":"2026-08-02T12:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T12:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/02\/russia-shoots-down-1158-ukrainian-drones-himars-rockets\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T12:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T12:45:18","slug":"russia-shoots-down-1158-ukrainian-drones-himars-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/02\/russia-shoots-down-1158-ukrainian-drones-himars-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Claims to Shoot Down 1,158 Ukrainian Drones in 24 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s Ministry of Defense announced that its air defense systems have shot down 1,158 Ukrainian drones in the past 24 hours. The ministry also claimed to have intercepted and destroyed six guided air bombs and one projectile from the U.S.-made HIMARS rocket system.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian news agency RIA Novosti, citing the Ministry of Defense, reported that this operation took place amid ongoing hostilities between Moscow and Kyiv. Russian officials have not released further details on the exact locations of these interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>The Russia-Ukraine war began in February 2022 after Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and launched a military operation against Ukraine a few days later. This move triggered widespread reactions from the United States and Western countries, which imposed extensive sanctions on Moscow and provided Kyiv with billions of dollars in military aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia claims it shot down 1,158 Ukrainian drones and intercepted U.S.-made HIMARS projectiles amid ongoing conflict with Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18959","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\/18959","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=18959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}