{"id":84092,"date":"2026-07-02T07:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84092"},"modified":"2026-07-02T07:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:28:26","slug":"russia-pound-kyiv-after-ukraine-hits-oil-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/russia-pound-kyiv-after-ukraine-hits-oil-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Pounds Kyiv After Ukraine Hits Oil Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Russia hammered Kyiv in an 11-hour drone and missile attack overnight into Thursday morning, killing at least 18 civilians in the city and injuring scores more in what Moscow said was retaliation for\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-ufa-refinery-oil-8f85eea709f58365c42ec3b29e5d1d6d\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil facilities<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Loud explosions shook the Ukrainian capital for hours during the night, with many people sheltering in subway stations after authorities issued air raid warnings. Emergency crews were still digging through the rubble of collapsed and charred apartment buildings in search of victims as dawn broke.\u00a0Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said in a statement that the deadly bombardment was in response to Ukraine\u2019s long-range strikes that have caused\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-fuel-crisis-gas-ec7e67f94ead8bf3ba064c785c2a8871\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">severe fuel shortages<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-petersburg-oil-terminal-putin-drone-887969921c595f3a81c3b6c0b120b5f3\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">put pressure<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Russia hammered Kyiv in an 11-hour drone and missile attack overnight into Thursday morning, killing at least 18.<\/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-84092","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\/84092","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=84092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84095,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84092\/revisions\/84095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}