{"id":616366,"date":"2026-06-02T03:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616366\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T03:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:38:09","slug":"several-killed-and-dozens-injured-in-massive-russian-strikes-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616366\/","title":{"rendered":"Several killed and dozens injured in massive Russian strikes on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Russian attacks hit Kyiv through the early morning, the buzz of drones could be heard between more than a dozen loud explosions as strikes made impact.<\/p>\n

The attack caused fires near a gas station, a construction site, and several apartment blocks, as well as two houses, Klitschko said. <\/p>\n

Blackouts and fires have also been reported across the city and the wider extent of damage is not yet clear.<\/p>\n

An industrial facility has also been attacked in Zaporizhzhia.<\/p>\n

The attacks come after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday reiterated warnings of a possible large Russian strike and urged residents to pay special attention to air raid alerts.<\/p>\n

“Intelligence warnings regarding Russian strikes remain in effect. A massive strike is possible, they have prepared one,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address.<\/p>\n

Last week Russia said it would target military and decision-making centres in Kyiv<\/a>, and urged foreigners to leave the city in what it said was a response to Ukraine deliberately striking a dormitory in Strabolinsk.<\/p>\n

In a statement at the time, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said it did carry out an attack near Starobilsk on the night of 21-22 May, but maintains that it struck a Russian military unit.<\/p>\n

Kyiv said Russia’s threats were “nothing short of shameless blackmail” and urged allies to increase pressure on Moscow.<\/p>\n

Since a brief ceasefire expired in May, Russia has launched several waves of missile and drone attacks on Kyiv, among them strikes on a block of flats that killed 24 people, including three children. <\/p>\n

A Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region killed three people, in what Zelensky said was an “entirely justified” response to Russian attacks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Russian attacks hit Kyiv through the early morning, the buzz of drones could be heard between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-616366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}