{"id":327430,"date":"2026-05-29T06:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327430"},"modified":"2026-05-30T05:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:44:13","slug":"senior-russian-mp-says-russia-will-begin-targeting-underground-bunkers-used-by-ukrainian-leadership-in-ky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327430","title":{"rendered":"Senior Russian MP Says Russia Will Begin Targeting Underground Bunkers Used by Ukrainian Leadership in Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Dave DeCamp \u2013AntiWar.com May 28, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>A senior member of Russia\u2019s parliament on Tuesday said that Russia is planning to escalate its attacks on Kyiv by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/640619-mp-russia-strategy-strikes-kiev\/\">targeting underground facilities and bunkers<\/a> used by Ukrainian military commanders and leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has informed the US and its European allies to evacuate their personnel from the Ukrainian capital as Moscow is planning major strikes that it says are a response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2026\/05\/24\/russia-launches-massive-drone-and-missile-barrage-on-kyiv-after-ukrainian-strike-kills-21-at-luhansk-college\/\">May 22 Ukrainian drone attack<\/a>\u00a0that hit a college in Starobelsk in the Luhansk Oblast, killing 21 people, and other strikes on civilians.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>RT<\/em>, Andrey Kartapolov, the head of the Russian State Duma\u2019s Defense Committee, said that Russia\u2019s \u201cpatience has run out\u201d and that it will target \u201cunderground fortified [military] command and control centers\u201d and bunkers used by Ukrainian security services and leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Foreign Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2026\/05\/25\/russia-tells-us-it-will-start-systematic-strikes-on-military-sites-and-decision-making-centers-in-kyiv\/\">has said<\/a> targets will include the facilities used to develop drones and \u201cdecision-making centers\u201d in Kyiv. Kartapolov said that \u201cdecision-making centers\u201d do not include the Ukrainian parliament or Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s office because Ukrainian MPs don\u2019t control the military and because the Ukrainian leader is rarely in his office.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/responsiblestatecraft.org\/us-leave-ukraine-war-talks\/\">Responsible Statecraft<\/a><\/em>, Anatol Lieven, director of the Eurasia Program at the <em>Quincy Institute<\/em>, said that Russia will likely use its Oreshnik hypersonic missiles to target \u201cthe underground headquarters in Kyiv where US and European officers have been helping the Ukrainian armed forces to target Russia with missiles and drones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lieven noted that Russia has so far refrained from targeting the headquarters despite Ukraine\u2019s frequent attacks on Russian command centers due to concerns that Russia would likely kill US and other NATO soldiers and intelligence officers, which could lead to a major escalation from the West.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has also likely refrained from taking the step as it has been involved in negotiations with the Trump administration to potentially end the war, but those talks appear to have hit a dead end, as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last week that there are \u201cno such talks occurring at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2026\/05\/26\/senior-russian-mp-says-russia-will-begin-targeting-underground-bunkers-used-by-ukrainian-leadership-in-kyiv\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has told the US and its European allies to evacuate personnel from the Ukrainian capital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":327432,"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-327430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327430","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\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327464,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327430\/revisions\/327464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/327432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}