{"id":739810,"date":"2026-08-16T12:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739810\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T12:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:44:11","slug":"kyiv-market-hit-in-wave-of-russian-strikes-as-moscow-governor-describes-massive-drone-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739810\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyiv market hit in wave of Russian strikes, as Moscow governor describes &#8216;massive&#8217; drone attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s new war strategy brings the war to the Russian public &#8211; security expertpublished at 10:55 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:55 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hanna Shelest, a woman in her 30s with long brown hair, wearing a striped, long-sleeved shirt, speaks to the computer camera during a remove interviews. She's sitting in an office chair inside what appears to be a room in a residential building\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dfd67e54-b733-47d2-bfdd-af7a5d8bd581.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1740\" height=\"979\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Russian civilians are starting to feel the impact of the ongoing war in Ukraine now that Kyiv has updated its military strategy, says security expert Dr Hanna Shelest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kyiv has changed its approach from a mainly defensive one and is instead working on making it impossible for Moscow to strike in the first place, she tells the BBC. Its focus is on military enterprises with a dual use, she adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wildberries has emerged as one of the leading targets in Ukraine&#8217;s latest strike campaigns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shelest says this is due to the online retailer&#8217;s alleged role aiding the Russian war effort &#8211; as well as it being widely used by the Russian public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Civilians in Russia, for four years, didn\u2019t feel the war<br \/>\nexisted,&#8221; Shelest says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She adds: &#8220;For them, it was [like] a nice soap opera on TV and propaganda<br \/>\nstatements by the leadership. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But now they really see the fire, they see what<br \/>\nthe war means&#8230; they see the impact on the economy and they see the visual<br \/>\npictures, which is really important for the perception of the war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Media caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wildberries warehouse on fire after Ukrainian drone attack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s new war strategy brings the war to the Russian public &#8211; security expertpublished at 10:55 BST 10:55&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-739810","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\/739810","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=739810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}