{"id":443130,"date":"2026-05-24T15:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/443130\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T15:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:37:19","slug":"major-missile-attack-targets-kyiv-in-russian-revenge-over-dormitory-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/443130\/","title":{"rendered":"Major missile attack targets Kyiv in Russian revenge over dormitory strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

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24 May, 2026 01:39 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n

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Residents take shelter in a metro station in central Kyiv during a Russian air attack on the Ukrainian capital today. Photo \/ Ania Tsoukanova, AFP<\/p>\n

A large ballistic missile attack pounded Kyiv today, wounding at least five people after Moscow threatened retaliation for strikes in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Loud explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital, while dozens of people took shelter in an underground metro station in the city centre.<\/p>\n

\n Tymur Tkachenko, head of
\n the Kyiv City Military Administration, posted online: \u201cThe capital has come under a mass ballistic missile attack\u201d.\n <\/p>\n

Mayor Vitali Klitschko said five people had been wounded and one of them hospitalised, adding: \u201cThere are currently reports of at least four locations affected by the attack … Fires and damage to residential buildings are preliminarily reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cA strike drone attack is ongoing; the ballistic missile threat remains present. Stay in shelters!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 24 May, 2026 01:39 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,89,130491,226319,11585,1342,42,78,98669,3242,5840,661,42272,3963,43,1523,384,95959,72656,97784,8221,226320,4485,19063,8220,18937,1865,40,38,41,39,3461,26105],"class_list":["post-443130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-attack","tag-ballistic","tag-dormitory","tag-eastern","tag-five","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-kyiv","tag-large","tag-least","tag-major","tag-missile","tag-moscow","tag-news","tag-over","tag-people","tag-pounded","tag-retaliation","tag-revenge","tag-russian","tag-russianoccupied","tag-strike","tag-strikes","tag-targets","tag-threatened","tag-today","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-ukraine","tag-wounding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}