{"id":83943,"date":"2026-06-26T08:15:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83943"},"modified":"2026-06-26T08:15:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:15:38","slug":"major-ukraine-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/major-ukraine-offensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Ukraine Offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/HLu_kNeWgAAiF9L?format=jpg&amp;name=900x900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine launched a major nighttime attack on a dozen Russian regions, Russian-held Crimea and the surrounding seas, Moscow\u2019s Defense Ministry said Friday, in what appeared to be one of Kyiv\u2019s biggest drone assaults since the Kremlin\u2019s\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">full-scale invasion<\/a><\/span>\u00a0more than four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Russian air defenses intercepted 660 Ukrainian drones, Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said. The previous biggest Ukrainian attack over the past year, as Ukraine has accelerated its drone development, involved 556 drones on May 17. In an effort to turn the tables on Russia\u2019s grinding war of attrition, Ukrainian long-range drones have been\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-drones-crimea-trump-25dc47db4d1a3b2908b8f060434aa765\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">battering<\/a><\/span>\u00a0oil production and energy facilities behind the front line and deep inside Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Ukraine launched a major nighttime attack on a dozen Russian regions, Russian-held Crimea and the surrounding seas, Moscow\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83944,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83943\/revisions\/83944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}