{"id":1518505,"date":"2026-06-26T03:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1518505"},"modified":"2026-06-26T03:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:38:18","slug":"russia-reports-one-of-the-biggest-ukrainian-drone-attacks-on-its-soil-and-annexed-crimea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1518505","title":{"rendered":"Russia reports one of the biggest Ukrainian drone attacks on its soil and annexed Crimea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"
A woman holds her cat after it being found during search and rescue works in the damaged residential building following Russia’s missile attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 20, 2026. (AP Photo\/Andrii Marienko)<\/figcaption><\/figure>Russian air defenses intercepted 660 Ukrainian drones in a major nighttime attack on 12 Russian regions as well as the Russia-held Crimean peninsula, the Black Sea and the Azov Sea, Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said Friday.<\/p>\n

It appeared to be one of the biggest drone attacks on Russian regions and the illegally annexed Crimea since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago.<\/p>\n

In an effort to turn the tables on Russia\u2019s grinding war of attrition, Ukrainian long-range drones have for months been battering targets, including oil production and energy facilities, behind the front line and deep inside Russia. The campaign has choked Russian fuel supplies and military deliveries, stalling Russia’s efforts on the battlefield, Western officials and analysts say, and heaped pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

The major attack came hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X that he had ordered \u201ca 40-day influence operation,\u201d believed to mean an escalation of attacks, aimed at \u201ccompelling (Russia) to end the war\u201d after U.S. peace efforts over the past year yielded no breakthrough.<\/p>\n

A Russian chemical plant is reportedly hit<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the Tula region just south of Moscow, a private house was damaged by the attack and a woman was wounded, Tula Gov. Dmitry Milyaev said in an online statement as reports of damage caused by the attack began to emerge.<\/p>\n

He also said a power line was damaged and an unspecified industrial facility in the city of Novomoskovsk.<\/p>\n

Russian independent online outlet Astra reported that a chemical plant and a hydroelectric plant in Novomoskovsk were attacked and caught fire. The Associated Press couldn\u2019t independently verify the report, and there was no official confirmation.<\/p>\n

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin also reported that 47 Ukrainian drones were downed as they flew toward the Russian capital. He did not report any casualties or damage.
\nUkraine says 2 civilians were killed in Russian attacks<\/p>\n

Two people were killed and seven others injured in Russian attacks on the northeastern Kharkiv region over the previous 24 hours, regional head Oleh Syniehubov said Friday.<\/p>\n

Russian forces struck the city of Kharkiv and 16 other settlements across the region using guided aerial bombs and drones of various types, Syniehubov said.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s Defense Forces overnight stopped 174 of 189 Russian drones, the Ukrainian air force said. However, four of seven Iskander-M ballistic missiles that were fired got through air defenses and struck various locations, it said.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Follow the AP\u2019s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russian air defenses intercepted 660 Ukrainian drones in a major nighttime attack on 12 Russian regions as well as the Russia-held Crimean peninsula, the Black Sea and the Azov Sea, Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1518506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,1504],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-heads","category-abc-world-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-06-28 03:37:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1518505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518507,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518505\/revisions\/1518507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1518506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1518505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1518505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1518505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}