{"id":22896,"date":"2026-09-29T10:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/29\/kyiv-explosions-russian-drone-attack-putin-army-expansion\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T10:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:45:16","slug":"kyiv-explosions-russian-drone-attack-putin-army-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/29\/kyiv-explosions-russian-drone-attack-putin-army-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy explosions reported in Kyiv as Russian drone attack hits city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strong explosions were heard in Kyiv early on Thursday morning, and the city\u2019s mayor said debris from a missile had fallen on one building, while a fire broke out in another.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s air force had earlier reported a Russian attack involving 124 drones and said Kyiv was the main target of the drones.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate development, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the country\u2019s army to be expanded by 15,500 troops. With the increase, the Russian armed forces will total 1.55 million personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy explosions were reported in Kyiv as Russia launched 124 drones, while Putin ordered a 15,500-troop increase in the army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22896","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\/22896","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=22896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}