{"id":55989,"date":"2025-10-18T09:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/russia-downs-61-ukrainian-drones-overnight-defense-ministry-says\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T09:06:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:06:41","slug":"russia-downs-61-ukrainian-drones-overnight-defense-ministry-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/russia-downs-61-ukrainian-drones-overnight-defense-ministry-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia downs 61 Ukrainian drones overnight, defense ministry says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;During the past night, from 11 p.m. (2000 GMT) on Oct. 16 to 7 a.m. (0400 GMT) on Oct. 17, air defense duty systems intercepted and destroyed 61 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles,&#8221; the defense ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-two drones were downed over Crimea and 13 over the Rostov Region, it added.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s Federal Air Transport Agency imposed flight restrictions at multiple Russian airports overnight for safety reasons, lifting them on Friday morning. In the city of Sochi, over a dozen flights were delayed due to the restrictions, and one flight was diverted to another airport, according to the local airport. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-96312 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/sbukr854535.jpg\" alt=\"Russian air defense systems shot down 61 Ukrainian drones overnight, including two over the Moscow region, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian air defense systems shot down 61 Ukrainian drones overnight, including two over the Moscow region, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000096311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","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":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","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":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000096311,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/sbukr854535.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/sbukr854535.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/sbukr854535.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/sbukr854535.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/sbukr854535.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/sbukr854535.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55989","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\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000096311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55989"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55989"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}