{"id":18977,"date":"2026-08-02T16:34:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/02\/russia-strikes-ukraine-ports-odessa-mykolaiv\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T16:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:34:42","slug":"russia-strikes-ukraine-ports-odessa-mykolaiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/02\/russia-strikes-ukraine-ports-odessa-mykolaiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Strikes Ukrainian Ports of Odessa and Mykolaiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that Russian forces targeted port facilities in the Ukrainian cities of Odessa and Mykolaiv on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, the attacks struck ships and transport infrastructure allegedly used by the Ukrainian military.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Defense Ministry added that in the port of Odessa, fuel storage tanks intended for Ukrainian forces were targeted using guided aerial weapons and drones.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the ministry stated that a tugboat in the port of Mykolaiv, repurposed to deploy unmanned surface vessels, was also attacked. Odessa and Mykolaiv are among Ukraine&#8217;s key ports on the Black Sea coast and have been repeatedly targeted during the ongoing conflict between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia targeted port facilities in Odessa and Mykolaiv, Ukraine, striking military-related ships and infrastructure with drones and guided aerial weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18977","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\/18977","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=18977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}