{"id":30734,"date":"2024-08-17T02:50:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T23:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=30734"},"modified":"2024-08-17T02:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T23:50:32","slug":"ukraine-downs-five-russia-launched-drones-during-overnight-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/17\/ukraine-downs-five-russia-launched-drones-during-overnight-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Downs Five Russia-Launched Drones During Overnight Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ukraine shot down all five Russia-launched drones during an overnight attack, the country&#8217;s air force said on Friday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Russian forces also used three ballistic Iskander-M missiles during the attack, according to the air force&#8217;s statement on the Telegram messaging app.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Russia used three Shahed-type drones and two drones of an unidentified type for the attack, it said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Reuters previously reported that Russia turned to using cheaply-made drones in some of its attacks on Ukraine to try to identify air defenses and act as decoys.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The governors of Kyiv and Kirovohrad regions reported no damage or casualties following the attack.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Air defense worked in the capital Kyiv overnight with no damage reported by the city&#8217;s authorities.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">On Thursday, the military turned on the air alerts four times to notify the city&#8217;s residents about possible attacks.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The air alert has come on over 1,200 times in Kyiv since the start of the full-scale invasion, authorities said on Friday.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies Ukraine shot down all five Russia-launched drones during an overnight attack, the country&#8217;s air force said on Friday. Russian forces also used three ballistic Iskander-M missiles during the attack, according to the air force&#8217;s statement on the Telegram messaging app. Russia used three Shahed-type drones and two drones of an unidentified &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30735,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30734\/revisions\/30735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}