Russia launched another large-scale missile strike against Ukraine overnight on May 1, injuring at least 34 people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia began launching missiles at Ukraine around 2:30 a.m., using strategic aircraft, nine Tu-95 aircraft and two Tu-160 aircraft, according to the Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine\u2019s Armed Forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In total, Ukraine’s air defense shot down 15 out of 18 air-launched Kh-101 and Kh-555 cruise missiles, Zaluzhnyi\u00a0wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thirty-four people were injured in\u00a0Dnipropetrovsk Oblast<\/strong>, including five children, Governor Serhiy Lysak\u00a0reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The youngest child is an eight-year-old girl, according to Lysak. A 45-year-old woman and a 55-year-old woman are being treated in intensive care. The rest of the injuries have been less severe, including bruises, fractures, cuts, and contusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Lysak, air defense was able to\u00a0shoot down\u00a0seven of the missiles targeting Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. However, there were an unspecified number of missiles which did cause infrastructure damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n An industrial enterprise was damaged in the city of Pavlohrad. Nineteen high-rise apartment buildings, 25 private houses, six schools and pre-school education institutions, and five shops were damaged in a residential area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Infrastructure in nearby communities also sustained damage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Kyiv Oblast<\/strong>\u00a0was attacked by both missiles and drones overnight on May 1, Governor Serhiy Popko\u00a0reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to preliminary information, all missiles and drones in Kyiv Oblast were destroyed by air defense. Neither casualties nor infrastructure damage have been reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since October, Russia has\u00a0carried out<\/strong>\u00a0repeated nationwide missile strikes against Ukraine that resulted in serious damage to the country’s critical energy infrastructure and killed dozens of civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Russia’s previous nationwide missile attack took place on April 28, killing at least 19 civilians and injuring 24 more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Russia launched another large-scale missile strike against Ukraine overnight on May 1, injuring at least 34 people. Russia began launching missiles at Ukraine around 2:30 a.m., using strategic aircraft, nine Tu-95 aircraft and two Tu-160 aircraft, according to the Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine\u2019s Armed Forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi. In total, Ukraine’s air defense shot down 15 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":32447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[8775,11363,11830,5304,9214,287,9331,6848,7445,423,5494,8995,11111,11525,9515,10454,5342,5254,12985,7968,8890,5462,3457,6736,8810,9761,11259,5818,5180,5273],"class_list":["post-32443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-air-defense","tag-aircraft","tag-armed-forces","tag-attack","tag-child","tag-children","tag-city","tag-civilians","tag-drones","tag-education","tag-energy","tag-infrastructure","tag-injured","tag-injuries","tag-killed","tag-killing","tag-kyiv","tag-missile","tag-missiles","tag-nine","tag-oblast","tag-residential","tag-russia","tag-school","tag-schools","tag-shoot","tag-shot","tag-strike","tag-ukraine","tag-woman"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}