{"id":18051,"date":"2024-04-18T19:56:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=18051"},"modified":"2026-01-18T10:58:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:58:46","slug":"the-ukrainians-hit-a-russian-military-airfield-on-the-crimean-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=18051","title":{"rendered":"The Ukrainians hit a Russian military airfield on the Crimean peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced today that Ukrainian armed forces had struck a Russian military airfield on the Crimean peninsula, congratulating General Sirsky for the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Today, the Ukrainian armed forces managed a precision strike against the occupiers in Dzhankoy, at an airport,&#8221; Zelensky said in a video message released this evening. \u201cThank you, warriors. Thank you for your accuracy. I thank the head of the armed forces (Olexandr) Sirsky for organizing this operation,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Throughout the day, I received updates on the tragedy in Chernihiv following a Russian strike on the city and its residential quarters. Houses have been damaged, as has a hospital and a hotel that has been ruined. People under the rubble. Many injured.<br><br>As of now, 17 people have\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WWeeBejnSA\">pic.twitter.com\/WWeeBejnSA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Volodymyr Zelenskyy \/ \u0412\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440 \u0417\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439 (@ZelenskyyUa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1780713006059622495?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ukrainian president also expressed his thanks to all soldiers participating in &#8220;special operations&#8221; to destroy enemy military infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine launches one of the most successful missile strikes against Russia so far. Initial reports say 2 ATACMS with cluster munitions hit an airfield in Jankoi, Crimea, destroying an S-400, 2 S-300 launchers, radar and a large stockpile of air defense missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dzhankoy region is located in the northern part of Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014. According to Ukrainian officials, the wider area has become Russia&#8217;s largest military base on the Crimean peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced today that Ukrainian armed forces had struck a Russian military airfield on the Crimean peninsula, congratulating General Sirsky for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2810,1168],"tags":[5330,58,1156,1976,3395],"class_list":["post-18051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate_environment","category-science-technology","tag-crimean-peninsula","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18052,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18051\/revisions\/18052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}