{"id":21144,"date":"2024-06-12T10:19:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T10:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=21144"},"modified":"2024-06-12T10:19:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T10:19:13","slug":"ukraine-says-destroys-russian-missiles-over-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/06\/ukraine-says-destroys-russian-missiles-over-kyiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine says destroys Russian missiles over Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; <\/strong><strong>Ukrainian air defense downed two dozen Russian drones and several missiles overnight, some targeting the capital Kyiv, officials said Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s repeated attacks across Ukraine are depleting the country\u2019s air defense, prompting President Volodymyr Zelensky to plead for aid from allies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMissiles came at Kyiv from the south in several waves. Almost simultaneously enemy attack drones were moving toward the capital from the same southern direction,\u201d the Kyiv administration said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline article__byline\">Agence France Presse (AFP) journalists heard at least one explosion in the capital, where the air raid alert lasted two hours.<\/div>\n<p>A fire broke out due to a strike in the Kyiv region, injuring a man, the national police said.<\/p>\n<p>Overall Russia launched 24 drones and six missiles across the country, the air defense said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has since the start of the war strengthened air defense over the capital, where attacks usually make little damage.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky has however recently called for several additional Patriot systems, including two to defend the eastern Kharkiv region bordering Russia.<\/p>\n<p>US media reported that the United States will send another Patriot missile air defense system to Ukraine in the coming days.<\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>ENDS<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Ukrainian air defense downed two dozen Russian drones and several missiles overnight, some targeting the capital Kyiv, officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,978,194,982,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-security","category-world","category-international","category-headline"],"views":31,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21150,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21144\/revisions\/21150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}