{"id":26189,"date":"2026-07-08T12:06:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=26189"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:06:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:06:03","slug":"ukrainian-air-force-destroys-russian-military-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=26189","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Air Force Destroys Russian Military Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine&#8217;s Air Force announced the destruction of another Russian military aircraft. The information was released on July 8 in an official statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Air Force, Ukrainian forces successfully eliminated another enemy aircraft, although no details were provided regarding the type of aircraft, the location of the strike, or the circumstances of the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier the same night, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) carried out a strike on the <strong>Dzhankoi<\/strong> airbase in occupied Crimea, reportedly hitting relay systems used for Russian <strong>Orion<\/strong> reconnaissance and strike drones, as well as weapons and military equipment storage facilities. On July 5, Ukrainian drones also targeted the <strong>Hvardiiske<\/strong> military airfield, which Russia uses for combat sorties, logistics, and aircraft maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s Air Force announced the destruction of another Russian military aircraft. The information was released on July 8 in an official statement. According to the Air Force, Ukrainian forces successfully eliminated another enemy aircraft, although no details were provided regarding the type of aircraft, the location of the strike, or the circumstances of the operation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,56,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","category-technology","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26191,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26189\/revisions\/26191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}