{"id":22578,"date":"2026-09-24T14:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/russia-shoots-down-40-ukrainian-drones-strikes-kyiv\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T14:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:15:21","slug":"russia-shoots-down-40-ukrainian-drones-strikes-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/russia-shoots-down-40-ukrainian-drones-strikes-kyiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Says It Shot Down 40 Ukrainian Drones and Struck Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry said its air defence forces destroyed 40 Ukrainian drones overnight over several Russian regions.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, the drones were shot down over the regions of Bryansk, Belgorod, Kursk and Tuva. No further details were released about any casualties or possible damage resulting from the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Defence Ministry also said its armed forces carried out a large-scale strike targeting several facilities linked to Ukraine\u2019s military industry. The ministry said communications and logistics centres in Kyiv and the Odesa region were also included among the targets in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry added that vessels which Russian officials say were in service with the Ukrainian armed forces were also targeted. Russian officials have so far provided no independent evidence to support these claims.<\/p>\n<p>Bryansk, Belgorod and Kursk are regions bordering Ukraine and have repeatedly come under cross-border attacks and drone activity in recent months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia says it shot down 40 Ukrainian drones and carried out strikes on Kyiv and Odesa-linked military facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22578","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\/22578","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=22578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}