{"id":6349,"date":"2026-07-15T03:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=6349"},"modified":"2026-07-15T03:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:30:27","slug":"moscow-mayor-says-340-ukrainian-drones-sent-towards-the-capital-most-downed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=6349","title":{"rendered":"Moscow mayor says 340 Ukrainian drones sent towards the capital, most downed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\" data-body-type=\"bodyblocks\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">July 14 (Reuters) &#8211; Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 340 Ukrainian drones had been dispatched to \u200cthe area surrounding the capital over a \u200c24-hour period and most had been downed by anti-aircraft units far \u200bfrom the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Most of them were neutralised by air defence forces on the outer approaches,&#8221; Sobyanin wrote on Telegram. &#8220;More than 50 enemy drones were destroyed on \u200ctheir way to Moscow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ukrainian \u2060drones approach the Russian capital routinely and Sobyanin provides a running account of \u2060the numbers taken out by anti-aircraft units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ukraine has intensified its attacks on Russian infrastructure sites, mainly linked \u200bto the \u200boil industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ukraine&#8217;s military said \u200bon Tuesday it had \u200ccarried out drone strikes on the Salavat petrochemical complex in the Urals and the Afipsky refinery in southern Russia. Attacks on oil infrastructure have contributed to gasoline shortages throughout Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Russian forces have stepped up \u200cdrone and missile attacks on \u200bKyiv in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Russia launched \u200ba barrage of drones \u200band ballistic missiles at Kyiv early \u200con Tuesday, the fifth such \u200battack on \u200bthe Ukrainian capital this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the attacks damaged 16 sites in the \u200bcapital, including a \u200cschool and a business, while city officials \u200breported several fires across the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Reuters; \u200bEditing by Jamie Freed)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 14 (Reuters) &#8211; Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 340 Ukrainian drones had been dispatched to \u200cthe area surrounding the capital over a \u200c24-hour period and most had been downed by anti-aircraft units far \u200bfrom the city. &#8220;Most of them were neutralised by air defence forces on the outer approaches,&#8221; Sobyanin wrote on Telegram. &#8220;More&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/d7b1b86a68934b1f1715fd49d3aed41655dff1b3b7364996764e775f22367991\/lightyear_networkapi\/resizefill_w800_h539;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Freuters.com%2Fa8ed23b0fe92ff324e39bd35ebce916c","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-trending-viral-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}