{"id":9792,"date":"2026-05-25T15:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=9792"},"modified":"2026-05-25T15:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:58:07","slug":"russia-hits-kyiv-odesa-and-dnipro-in-one-of-deadliest-attacks-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/05\/25\/russia-hits-kyiv-odesa-and-dnipro-in-one-of-deadliest-attacks-on-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia hits Kyiv, Odesa and Dnipro in one of deadliest attacks on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Overnight on Thursday, April 16, 2026, Russia unleashed a massive aerial bombardment against several major cities across Ukraine, including the capital city of Kyiv, Odesa, and Dnipro. The sweeping offensive utilized a barrage of 659 drones and 44 missiles, resulting in at least 16 civilian deaths and injuring scores more. Ukrainian air defense systems successfully shot down or neutralized the vast majority of the incoming threats. Despite these interceptions, the remaining ordnance caused widespread structural damage, igniting multiple fires and impacting residential areas, an 18-story building, an office complex, and a hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: April 16, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/04\/16\/russia-hits-kyiv-odesa-and-dnipro-in-one-of-deadliest-attacks-on-ukraine\">euronews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight on Thursday, April 16, 2026, Russia unleashed a massive aerial bombardment against several major cities across Ukraine, including the capital city of Kyiv, Odesa, and Dnipro. The sweeping offensive utilized a barrage of 659 drones and 44 missiles, resulting in at least 16 civilian deaths and injuring scores more. Ukrainian air defense systems successfully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":9794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9792"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9930,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions\/9930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}