{"id":566622,"date":"2026-08-09T11:09:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T08:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=566622"},"modified":"2026-08-09T12:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:56:17","slug":"russia-launches-massive-strike-on-odesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/russia-launches-massive-strike-on-odesa","title":{"rendered":"Russia Launches Massive Strike on Odesa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>During the night of Aug. 9, Russia launched a massive strike on Odesa and the Odesa region. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/GeneralStaffZSU\/41812\">the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine<\/a>, Russia launched ballistic, anti-ship and anti-radiation missiles: Iskander-M\/S-400, Oniks and Kh-31P, as well as 202 attack drones.<\/p>\n<p>At least eight people were injured in Odesa. Three of them are in moderate condition, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/odesaMVA\/2964\">the Odesa City Military Administration reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Several residential buildings were destroyed in the city and cars were damaged. The port was also damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Other cities were also targeted. In Kharkiv, a drone destroyed four floors of a residential building. Two people were killed and dozens were injured.<\/p>\n<p>In Pavlohrad, energy infrastructure facilities and a shopping center were damaged. Nine people were injured, including four children.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_566600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-566600\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-566600\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-09_11-05-58.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-09_11-05-58.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-09_11-05-58-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-09_11-05-58-1200x898.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-09_11-05-58-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-09_11-05-58-534x400.jpg 534w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-09_11-05-58-1069x800.jpg 1069w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-566600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: t.me\/odeskaODA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the night of Aug. 9, Russia launched a massive strike on Odesa and the Odesa region. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russia launched ballistic, anti-ship and anti-radiation missiles: Iskander-M\/S-400, Oniks and Kh-31P, as well as 202 attack drones. At least eight people were injured in Odesa. Three of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":566621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a784ec4dafcc.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Russia Launches Massive Strike on Odesa"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143291,143284],"tags":[143121,143123],"class_list":["post-566622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-army","category-world","tag-rossijsko-ukrainskaja-vojna","tag-ukraina"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566622","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=566622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}