{"id":50348,"date":"2025-06-28T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/a-russian-drone-strike-on-odesa-kills-a-married-couple-and-injures-17-other-people-ukraine-says\/28\/06\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T06:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T10:49:00","slug":"a-russian-drone-strike-on-odesa-kills-a-married-couple-and-injures-17-other-people-ukraine-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/a-russian-drone-strike-on-odesa-kills-a-married-couple-and-injures-17-other-people-ukraine-says\/28\/06\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"A Russian drone strike on Odesa kills a married couple and injures 17 other people, Ukraine says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Two people died and at least 17 more were injured as Russian drones overnight struck the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa, Ukrainian authorities said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A drone slammed into a residential tower block in the city, causing damage to three floors and trapping residents, emergency services said. The two killed in the attack were a married couple, according to regional Gov. Oleh Kiper, who added that three children were among the injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There was no immediate comment from Moscow. According to Russia&#8217;s Defense Ministry, over 40 Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight and on Saturday morning, over western Russia and Kremlin-occupied Crimea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Long-range drone strikes have been a hallmark of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the war, now in its fourth year;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the war, now in its fourth year<\/a>. The race by both sides to develop increasingly sophisticated and deadlier drones has turned the war into <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-kyiv-technology-17a364a50a9d7861c59ea423c7491458\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a testing ground for new weaponry;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">a testing ground for new weaponry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/russian-drone-strike-odesa-kills-103723794.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV, Ukraine (AP) &mdash; Two people died and at least 17 more were injured as Russian drones overnight struck the southern Ukrainian<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/a-russian-drone-strike-on-odesa-kills-a-married-couple-and-injures-17-other-people-ukraine-says\/28\/06\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/ix.4H9Q3ijO2EIZxrA9_Ug--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD04MDA7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ap.org\/1e574f668121942f62f025d2f29ea4d1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}