{"id":36894,"date":"2026-09-24T16:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=36894"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:41:12","slug":"strikes-on-the-capital-and-an-increasingly-grueling-autumn-for-ukrainian-cities-russia-intensifies-air-attacks-on-ukraine-with-kyiv-once-again-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=36894","title":{"rendered":"Strikes on the capital and an increasingly grueling autumn for Ukrainian cities: Russia intensifies air attacks on Ukraine, with Kyiv once again under fire."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kyiv has been subjected to major attacks twice in recent days. On September 23, Russian drones struck warehouses, a business center, and transport and railway infrastructure; a fresh attack followed on September 24\u2014this time involving ballistic missiles and drones\u2014resulting in casualties and damage to a maternity hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reuters reports that Russia is increasingly deploying jet-powered drones, which are more difficult to intercept. According to Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat, about 60% of these aircraft are currently being shot down, whereas earlier models were intercepted in more than 90% of cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Reuters report also notes that key pillars of the Ukrainian economy\u2014including ports, railways, logistics networks, warehouses, and essential supply facilities\u2014have increasingly come under attack in recent months.\u2069<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyiv has been subjected to major attacks twice in recent days. On September 23, Russian drones struck warehouses, a business center, and transport and railway infrastructure; a fresh attack followed on September 24\u2014this time involving ballistic missiles and drones\u2014resulting in casualties and damage to a maternity hospital. Reuters reports that Russia is increasingly deploying jet-powered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36894","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=36894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36896,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36894\/revisions\/36896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}