{"id":534041,"date":"2026-04-16T08:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=534041"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:02:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:02:57","slug":"russia-launches-more-than-700-drones-and-missiles-at-ukraine-leaving-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/russia-launches-more-than-700-drones-and-missiles-at-ukraine-leaving-dead","title":{"rendered":"Russia Launches More Than 700 Drones and Missiles at Ukraine, Leaving Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Russia continued its large-scale attacks on Ukrainian cities overnight, again using a large number of drones and missiles. Poland scrambled aircraft and increased the readiness of its air defence systems.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia used 703 weapons, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>19 Iskander-M\/S-400 ballistic missiles;<\/li>\n<li>20 Kh-101 cruise missiles;<\/li>\n<li>5 Iskander-K cruise missiles;<\/li>\n<li>659 Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas and other types of drones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ukrainian air defence systems shot down or suppressed 667 targets, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8 Iskander-M\/S-400 ballistic missiles;<\/li>\n<li>19 Kh-101 cruise missiles;<\/li>\n<li>4 Iskander-K cruise missiles;<\/li>\n<li>636 Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas and other types of drones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Twelve missiles and 20 drones struck 26 locations, while debris fell in 25 areas.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ukraine&#8217;s State Emergency Service, four people were killed in Kyiv and 48 others were injured. In the Obolon district, parked cars caught fire and warehouse facilities, a tyre repair shop and a store were damaged. Two people were killed there, while six others were injured, including police officers and ambulance workers who had arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>In the Podil district, the facades of residential buildings were destroyed. Two bodies were found under the rubble, including that of a 12-year-old child. Three other people were injured. Two hotels were also damaged and a one-storey house was destroyed. A drone hit a multi-storey residential building.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were injured in Kharkiv.<\/p>\n<p>In Odesa, seven people were killed and another 11 were injured. Infrastructure facilities and a residential building in the Khadzhibei district were damaged, while the blast wave shattered more than 300 windows in several buildings.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_534010\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-534010\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-534010 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-16_08-05-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-16_08-05-07.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-16_08-05-07-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-16_08-05-07-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-16_08-05-07-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-16_08-05-07-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-534010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Ukraine&#8217;s State Emergency Service<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_534008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-534008\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-534008 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-16_08-05-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-16_08-05-21.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-16_08-05-21-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-16_08-05-21-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-16_08-05-21-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-16_08-05-21-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-16_08-05-21-1067x800.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-534008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Ukraine&#8217;s State Emergency Service<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_534007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-534007\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-534007 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-16_08-05-24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-16_08-05-24.jpg 960w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-16_08-05-24-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-16_08-05-24-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-16_08-05-24-533x400.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-534007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Ukraine&#8217;s State Emergency Service<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia continued its large-scale attacks on Ukrainian cities overnight, again using a large number of drones and missiles. Poland scrambled aircraft and increased the readiness of its air defence systems. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia used 703 weapons, including: 19 Iskander-M\/S-400 ballistic missiles; 20 Kh-101 cruise missiles; 5 Iskander-K cruise missiles; 659 Shahed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":534040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69e097b7960bb.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Russia Launches More Than 700 Drones and Missiles at Ukraine, Leaving Dead"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143284],"tags":[143121,143123],"class_list":["post-534041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-world","tag-rossijsko-ukrainskaja-vojna","tag-ukraina"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}