{"id":2000106299,"date":"2026-03-24T09:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/?p=2000106299"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:06:59","slug":"russian-drone-and-missile-attack-kills-three-people-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/russian-drone-and-missile-attack-kills-three-people-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian drone and missile attack kills three people in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, one person was killed, and five more were wounded when drones and missiles hit residential areas. Several apartment buildings, private homes, a shop, and an industrial facility were damaged, according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov, who shared photos showing fires and destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Russia launched a massive \u200bcombined strike on Zaporizhzhia using drones and \u200bmissiles,&#8221; Governor Ivan Fedorov said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the eastern Poltava region, two people died and 11 others were injured in similar attacks that struck homes and a hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The strikes come shortly after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday warned that intelligence reports showed Russia preparing a new, large\u2011scale offensive.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"649\" src=\"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/YBLPHJ7NNNOP7FQSLY5SCLZDAA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2000106300\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Russian drone, missile attack kills three in Ukraine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian forces carried out overnight drone and missile strikes across parts of Ukraine, killing at least three civilians and injuring others, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday, March 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":2000106300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[201],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000106299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-rania-umutoni"],"bylines":[{"id":201,"name":"Rania Umutoni","slug":"rania-umutoni","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":139}],"contributors":[{"id":201,"name":"Rania Umutoni","slug":"rania-umutoni","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":139}],"featured_image":{"id":2000106300,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/YBLPHJ7NNNOP7FQSLY5SCLZDAA.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":960,"height":649,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/YBLPHJ7NNNOP7FQSLY5SCLZDAA.jpg","width":150,"height":101},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/YBLPHJ7NNNOP7FQSLY5SCLZDAA.jpg","width":300,"height":203},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/YBLPHJ7NNNOP7FQSLY5SCLZDAA.jpg","width":768,"height":519},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/YBLPHJ7NNNOP7FQSLY5SCLZDAA.jpg","width":960,"height":649},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/YBLPHJ7NNNOP7FQSLY5SCLZDAA.jpg","width":960,"height":649}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000106299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000106299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000106299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000106310,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000106299\/revisions\/2000106310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000106300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000106299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000106299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000106299"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000106299"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000106299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}