{"id":20064,"date":"2026-08-22T07:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/22\/russia-strikes-ukraine-military-infrastructure-kyiv-odesa\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T07:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:45:15","slug":"russia-strikes-ukraine-military-infrastructure-kyiv-odesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/22\/russia-strikes-ukraine-military-infrastructure-kyiv-odesa\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Says It Carried Out Major Strikes on Ukrainian Military Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry said its forces carried out large-scale overnight strikes on a number of Ukrainian military and logistics facilities in Kyiv and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, the attacks were carried out using Russian missiles and drones, and included the Darnitsa station, described as an important rail hub in south-western Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Defence Ministry claimed the route was being used to transport weapons and military equipment for the Ukrainian army. It also said the Pivory logistics centre in Kyiv, where drone equipment was stored, was targeted.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Russian Defence Ministry said its warplanes struck fuel depots and military equipment belonging to the Ukrainian army in the ports of Chornomorsk and Yuzhny in Odesa region in southern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv is the capital of Ukraine and Odesa is among the country\u2019s important port areas in the south. These areas have been repeatedly targeted during the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia says it launched overnight strikes on Ukrainian military and logistics sites in Kyiv and Odesa region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20064","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\/20064","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=20064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}