{"id":2907,"date":"2025-05-07T15:22:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pinewoodms.com\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2025-05-07T16:21:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:21:52","slug":"russia-reveals-intensity-of-mass-ukrainian-drone-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pinewoodms.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/russia-reveals-intensity-of-mass-ukrainian-drone-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia reveals intensity of mass Ukrainian drone attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Moscow\u2019s forces have fended off hundreds of drones and more than a dozen missiles and bombs, the Defense Ministry has said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russian anti-aircraft defenses have repelled a large-scale Ukrainian attack, downing two Western-supplied HIMARS rockets and over 500 drones, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said on Wednesday. Five long-range Neptune guided missiles and six JDAM precision-guided aerial bombs were also destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Aerial assaults have increased in the lead-up to a ceasefire declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin, which is scheduled to take effect from midnight on May 7&ndash;8 through midnight on May 10&ndash;11.<\/p>\n<p>Intended as a humanitarian gesture to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, the three-day pause also opens the door to potential <em>&ldquo;direct negotiations with Kiev without preconditions,&rdquo;<\/em> Moscow said.<\/p>\n<p>Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/616940-peskov-talks-drone-attacks\/\">confirmed<\/a> on Wednesday that Russia still plans to offer the 3-day ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>By ramping up drone strikes on Russia, <em>&ldquo;the Kiev regime continues to demonstrate its essence, its inclination to terrorist actions,&rdquo;<\/em> Peskov said.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/616858-ukraine-civilian-attacks-report\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n            <span>READ MORE: <\/span>Record civilian casualties from Ukrainian strikes last week \u2013 Moscow<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Ukraine&rsquo;s Vladimir Zelensky has declined to support the proposed ceasefire, calling it a Russian <em>&ldquo;attempt at manipulation.&rdquo; <\/em>According to the Russian Foreign Ministry&rsquo;s war crimes investigator Rodion Miroshnik, the past week saw a record number of civilian casualties from drone attacks, with 15 people killed and 142 others injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow\u2019s forces have fended off hundreds of drones and more than a dozen missiles and bombs, the Defense Ministry has said Russian anti-aircraft defenses have repelled a large-scale Ukrainian attack, downing two Western-supplied HIMARS rockets and over 500 drones, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said on Wednesday. Five long-range Neptune guided missiles and six JDAM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pinewoodms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pinewoodms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pinewoodms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pinewoodms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pinewoodms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pinewoodms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2908,"href":"http:\/\/pinewoodms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions\/2908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pinewoodms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pinewoodms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pinewoodms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pinewoodms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}