{"id":614799,"date":"2026-04-30T07:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/614799\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T07:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:04:19","slug":"ukraine-news-today-breaking-updates-live-coverage-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/614799\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine News Today: Breaking Updates &#038; Live Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-lead mb-2\">Russia launched two waves of strikes on Odesa, injuring 16 and damaging homes, a kindergarten, and infrastructure. Air defenses downed 172 drones across Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyivpost.com\/topic\/russia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russia<\/a> launched two waves of massive strikes on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyivpost.com\/topic\/odesa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Odesa<\/a> in the early hours of Thursday, April 30.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/odeskaODA\/15762\" rel=\"nofollow\">Telegram<\/a>, the head of the City Military Administration (MVA), Oleh Kiper, said the Primorskyi district suffered the heaviest damage, with high-rise buildings on fire and a kindergarten significantly damaged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia launched two waves of strikes on Odesa, injuring 16 and damaging homes, a kindergarten, and infrastructure. Air&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-614799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}