{"id":50639,"date":"2026-05-17T22:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/about-300-russian-drones-destroyed-over-sumy-region-in-24-hours-regional-military-administration\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T22:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:11:14","slug":"about-300-russian-drones-destroyed-over-sumy-region-in-24-hours-regional-military-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/about-300-russian-drones-destroyed-over-sumy-region-in-24-hours-regional-military-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"About 300 Russian drones destroyed over Sumy region in 24 hours &#8211; Regional Military Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past day, Ukraine&#039;s defense forces destroyed about 300 Russian drones over the territory of the Sumy region. At the same time, Russian troops continue massive drone attacks on the region&#039;s communities. This was reported by the head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration, Oleh Hryhorov, on his Telegram channel, according to UNN.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>According to Hryhorov, the Ukrainian military is working around the clock to destroy aerial targets and protect the residents of the region.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Sincere gratitude to our defenders for their professional and extremely important work in protecting the skies of the Sumy region,&quot;<\/p>\n<p>the head of the Regional Military Administration noted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Hits on civilian infrastructure reported in Sumy region<\/h2>\n<p>Hryhorov emphasized that despite the significant number of downed drones, Russian attacks do not stop. According to him, hits on civilian infrastructure have been recorded in the region.<\/p>\n<p><video controls=\"true\"><source src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/video\/2026\/05\/17\/1779051342-4096.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/source><\/video><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Russians are deliberately terrorizing the civilian population and communities of the region,&quot;<\/p>\n<p>stated the head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Regional Military Administration urged residents of the region to stay in shelters or safe places during air raid alerts.<\/p>\n<p>The report emphasizes that even drones shot down or suppressed by electronic warfare (EW) means can pose a danger due to the risk of falling debris or detonation.<\/p>\n<p>Russian drones hit a kindergarten in the center of Sumy \u2013 acting mayor06.05.26, 11:39 \u2022 4083 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past day, Ukraine&#039;s defense forces destroyed about 300 Russian drones over the territory of the Sumy region. At the same time, Russian troops continue massive drone attacks on the region&#039;s communities. This was reported by the head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration, Oleh Hryhorov, on his Telegram channel, according to UNN. Details [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-in-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}