{"id":288043,"date":"2024-05-23T06:05:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T06:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=288043"},"modified":"2024-05-24T07:25:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T07:25:57","slug":"ukraine-shot-down-drones-hit-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=288043","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: ‘Shot Down’ Drones Hit Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moon of Alabama \u2013 May 22, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Reports of damage caused by Russian drones in Ukraine are regularly followed by reports which claim that all drones were shot down.<\/p>\n

Via Strana<\/em> (machine translations):<\/p>\n

Russians hit Konotop and Shostka power facilities in Sumy region<\/a><\/p>\n

08:22, today<\/p>\n

Last night, Russian troops launched an air strike on the energy facilities of Konotop and Shostka in the Sumy region.<\/p>\n

This is reported by the Sumy OVA. “The enemy launched an air strike, using a Shahed-type UAV, on the energy facilities of the cities of Shostka and Konotop,” the report says.<\/p>\n

Currently, work is underway to restore power supply, which was cut off due to an enemy strike.<\/p>\n

Also in the OVA reported that over the Sumy region this night destroyed 7 enemy UAVs of the type “Shahed”.<\/p>\n

Ukrenergo reported that Sumy and the surrounding areas remain without electricity after the night attack of “Shahids”.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Air forces destroyed all 24 Shaheds that attacked Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n

09:00, today<\/p>\n

On the night of Wednesday, May 22, Russia attacked Ukraine with 24 strike UAVs of the Shahed-131\/136 type. This is reported by the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

“As a result of the anti-aircraft battle, the Ukrainian Defense Forces managed to shoot down all 24 Shaheds,” the report says.
\nStrike UAVs were destroyed in the Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Donetsk, Sumy and Odessa regions.<\/p>\n

Recall that at night, Russian troops launched an air strike on the energy facilities of Konotop and Shostka in the Sumy region<\/a>.
\nSumy and surrounding areas remain without electricity after the night attack of “Shahids”.<\/p>\n

I will concede that debris of a shot down drone can still cause damage. But when the ‘debris’ of a ‘shot down’ drone is causing the intended damage when it hits its target was it really shot down?<\/p>\n

Who do they think they are kidding with this?<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian propagandists are falling over themselves as they try to play down the extent of recent Russian military gains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288044,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288043\/revisions\/288044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}