{"id":20662,"date":"2026-08-29T17:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T17:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/29\/russia-captures-three-villages-donetsk-sumy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T17:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T17:01:13","slug":"russia-captures-three-villages-donetsk-sumy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/29\/russia-captures-three-villages-donetsk-sumy\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Says It Has Captured Three Villages in Donetsk and Sumy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s Defence Ministry said on Saturday that its forces had captured three villages in Ukraine&#8217;s Donetsk and Sumy regions.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, the village of Khrapivshchyna in the Sumy region and the villages of Novandriivka and Rybizhne in the Donetsk region were taken by Russian forces.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry also said it had struck a logistics centre in the Kyiv region. Russian Defence Ministry said components of Ukrainian ballistic missiles were stored at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Russia also said it carried out a series of precision strikes over the past 24 hours on logistics centres, ports, supply routes and fuel and energy facilities in Kyiv, its suburbs and other regions of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Donetsk in eastern Ukraine is one of the main centres of fighting between Russia and Ukraine, while the Sumy region in northern Ukraine, along the border with Russia, holds strategic importance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia says its forces captured three villages in Ukraine and struck logistics facilities in Kyiv region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20662","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\/20662","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=20662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}