{"id":55886,"date":"2024-10-27T09:06:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T09:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/russia-claims-destruction-of-51-ukrainian-drones-in-multiple-regions\/"},"modified":"2024-10-27T09:06:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T09:06:54","slug":"russia-claims-destruction-of-51-ukrainian-drones-in-multiple-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/russia-claims-destruction-of-51-ukrainian-drones-in-multiple-regions\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia claims destruction of 51 Ukrainian drones in multiple regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defence announced on Sunday that it intercepted and destroyed 51 Ukrainian drones in multiple regions, including areas near the border with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The drones were reportedly shot down over several territories, with 18 intercepted in Tambov, around 400 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, and 16 near Belgorod, a border town, according to a statement posted by the ministry on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>Additional interceptions were reported in the regions of Oryol, Bryansk, Lipetsk, and Voronezh.<\/p>\n<p>One drone was also downed in Kursk, an area where Ukrainian forces have been conducting a ground offensive since August, controlling parts of Russian territory.<\/p>\n<p>This marks another incident in a series of ongoing drone attacks that Moscow claims it intercepts almost daily.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv asserts that such strikes on Russian territory are in response to Russia\u2019s repeated bombardments of Ukrainian infrastructure, including energy facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Russia claims destruction of 51 Ukrainian drones in multiple regions<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defence announced on Sunday that it intercepted and destroyed 51 Ukrainian drones in multiple regions, including areas&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,12510],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}