{"id":544893,"date":"2026-05-24T12:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=544893"},"modified":"2026-05-25T07:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:35:26","slug":"russian-defense-ministry-confirms-strikes-on-ukraine-with-oreshnik-iskander-kinzhal-and-zircon-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/russian-defense-ministry-confirms-strikes-on-ukraine-with-oreshnik-iskander-kinzhal-and-zircon-missiles","title":{"rendered":"Russian Defense Ministry Confirms Strikes on Ukraine With Oreshnik, Iskander, Kinzhal and Zircon Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed carrying out a massive strike on Ukrainian territory using Oreshnik ballistic missiles, Iskander aeroballistic missiles, Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles, Zircon cruise missiles, air-, sea- and ground-launched cruise missiles, as well as attack drones.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Russian side, the strike targeted <i>\u201cmilitary command facilities, air bases and enterprises of Ukraine\u2019s defense-industrial complex.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Ukrainian authorities reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/russia-attacks-kyiv-and-kyiv-region-with-strike-drones-and-ballistic-missiles-including-oreshnik\">Russia launched a massive combined strike on Ukraine during the night of May 24<\/a>. Kyiv was the main target of the attack. Ukraine\u2019s Air Force recorded 690 aerial attack weapons \u2014 90 missiles and 600 drones of various types. Residential buildings, schools, supermarkets, shopping centers and non-residential structures were reported damaged. There were civilian casualties.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cPutin can no longer even properly pronounce the word \u2018hurrah\u2019 \u2014 he mumbles \u2014 yet he still destroys residential buildings with his missiles. Three Russian missiles against a water supply facility, he burned down a market, damaged dozens of residential buildings and several ordinary schools. He launched his Oreshnik against Bila Tserkva. Truly insane people,\u201d<\/i> Ukrainian President <b>Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/b> said in a video address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed carrying out a massive strike on Ukrainian territory using Oreshnik ballistic missiles, Iskander aeroballistic missiles, Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles, Zircon cruise missiles, air-, sea- and ground-launched cruise missiles, as well as attack drones. According to the Russian side, the strike targeted \u201cmilitary command facilities, air bases and enterprises of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a13d1913c5fe.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Russian Defense Ministry Confirms Strikes on Ukraine With Oreshnik, Iskander, Kinzhal and Zircon Missiles"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143291,143284,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-army","category-world","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544893","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}