{"id":130439,"date":"2024-11-26T23:21:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T16:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=130439"},"modified":"2024-11-26T23:21:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T16:21:44","slug":"ukraine-says-russian-attack-sets-a-new-record-for-the-number-of-drones-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=130439","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine says Russian attack sets a new record for the number of drones used"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Russia launched 188 drones against most regions of Ukraine in a nighttime blitz, the Ukrainian air force said Tuesday, describing it as a record number of drones deployed in a single attack.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the drones were intercepted, according to the air force, but apartment buildings and critical infrastructure such as the national power grid were damaged. No casualties were immediately reported in the 17 targeted regions.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Defense Ministry, meanwhile, issued a rare official acknowledgement of its assets recently being hit on its own soil by U.S.-made ATACMS missiles, after <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/pronto.associatedpress.com\/web\/stories\/details\/4d388b0a02fc3fc785b1a67a6a22ebae.1.2.json?type=new-wt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Joe Biden authorized Ukraine<\/a><\/span> to use the longer-range weapons to strike deeper inside Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Russia <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-missiles-drones-bombs-098885dc87ac4ffbeecdc537650a85b0\">has been hammering civilian areas<\/a><\/span> of Ukraine with increasingly heavy drone, missile and glide bomb attacks since the middle of the year.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Russia\u2019s army has largely held the battlefield initiative for the past year and has been <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ukraine-russia-war-f7f56e494df1dbbcdec1853001796c45\">pushing hard in the eastern Donetsk region<\/a><\/span> where it is making significant tactical advances, according to Western military analysts.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine faces a difficult winter, with worries about <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ukraine-energy-russia-airstrikes-greenpeace-1dfe7e60d4f9291f1196afda1a19373a\">the reliability of the electricity supply<\/a><\/span> amid Russia\u2019s attacks and how much U.S. support it can count on next year after President-elect <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/election-ukraine-war-russia-harris-trump-b709d17bf1e81531853bd85fb8414ece\">Donald Trump takes office<\/a><\/span> in January.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Defense Ministry said five U.S.-made <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ukraine-russia-war-biden-what-are-atacms-missiles-8d8621321af8c673bd42a5693c2ad1f4\">Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS,<\/a><\/span> missiles were fired at one of its air defense missile systems in Russia\u2019s Kursk border region on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It said three of the missiles were downed by the Pantsyr short-range air defense systems protecting the position but that two other missiles hit it, injuring an unspecified number of servicemen and damaging the system\u2019s radar.<\/p>\n<p>In another attack with ATACMS on Monday, eight of the missiles were launched at the Kursk-Vostochny military air base near Khalino. Seven of them were shot down and one hit the facility, injuring two servicemen and causing minor damage, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreparations for retaliatory action are under way,\u201d the ministry said without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. official said Nov. 19 that ATACMS had been <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-1000-days-attack-06002c8c50bfb2fc622f446a8580bc0e\">fired at targets inside Russia<\/a><\/span> for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>As Russian Shahed drones spread out across Ukraine late Monday, the air raid alert in the Kyiv region overnight lasted more than seven hours. Russia is trying to unnerve civilians and wear down their will to resist in <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine\">the almost 3-year-old war<\/a><\/span>, military analysts say.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that each Shahed has 85 foreign components and that Russia obtained them by circumventing international sanctions. He said on the Telegram messaging app that \u201cwe need more joint effort so that the sanctions work and force Russia to stop this war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ukraine\u2019s General Staff said Tuesday that over the past 24 hours roughly half of the clashes along the about 1,000-kilometer (600 mile) front line occurred near Pokrovsk and Kurakhove in the Donetsk region.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has a critical manpower problem on the front line, and though the Russian army\u2019s gains have been incremental its momentum is adding up as the Ukrainians yield ground.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian advance is threatening important supply routes in Donetsk, the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said late Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian defenses in Donetsk are not in danger of being overrun, however, the think tank said. It also noted that Russia would need to capture more than 8,000 square kilometers (3,000 square miles) of territory to achieve the Kremlin\u2019s goal of seizing the whole of Donetsk.<\/p>\n<p>In other developments, a court in Russia\u2019s Kursk region has ordered <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-kursk-international-legion-e7fd8790cd151ff3b73a5edcc5e00bf5\">a British national fighting with Ukraine<\/a><\/span> to be held in detention pending an investigation and trial.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling on the Briton, identified by state news agency Tass and other media as James Scott Rhys Anderson, was announced Tuesday by court officials, who said in an online statement that it was handed down the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing took place behind closed doors in the Leninsky District Court in the city of Kursk. It wasn\u2019t clear from the statement what charges Anderson is facing and whether he is considered a prisoner of war by the Russian authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The Briton reportedly was captured in the Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces have seized territory following a lightning offensive in August.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Follow AP\u2019s coverage of the war in Ukraine at <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-drone-attack-donetsk-4d388b0a02fc3fc785b1a67a6a22ebae\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Russia launched 188 drones against most regions of Ukraine in a nighttime blitz, the Ukrainian air force said Tuesday, describing it as a record number of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=130439\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}