{"id":1274165,"date":"2025-07-31T12:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/this-is-not-the-first-time-they-have-been-used-the-russians-could-have-attacked-kyiv-with-shahed-rocket-launchers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:10:06","slug":"this-is-not-the-first-time-they-have-been-used-the-russians-could-have-attacked-kyiv-with-shahed-rocket-launchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/this-is-not-the-first-time-they-have-been-used-the-russians-could-have-attacked-kyiv-with-shahed-rocket-launchers\/","title":{"rendered":"This is not the first time they have been used: the Russians could have attacked Kyiv with Shahed rocket launchers"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, July 31, Russian invaders struck Kyiv with missiles and UAVs, including Shahed jets.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was announced by<\/a> the Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko.<\/p>\n

“There is preliminary information that there were Shahed rocket launchers, which are not the first time they have been used on civilian and municipal infrastructure facilities in Ukraine. Experts are now counting exactly how many Shahed rocket launchers there were,” he said.<\/p>\n

Klymenko said that UAVs were coming from different sides of Kyiv. He noted that the jet drones were used before the missile attack.<\/p>\n

“After everything seemed to calm down, an hour later a rocket attack took place,” he added.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, on the night of Thursday, July 31, Russian forces carried out a combined attack on Kyiv, using missiles and drones. The strike resulted in significant destruction in several areas of the capital, with fatalities and dozens of injuries.<\/a><\/p>\n

It should be noted that First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov said that the Russians are already modernizing their “shaheeds” so that they can more effectively avoid Ukrainian interceptor drones. He noted that the Russian military is already preparing to massively use jet drones, as well as implementing technologies that allow them to bypass Ukrainian interceptor drones.<\/a><\/p>\n

As reported, a specialist in the field of electronic warfare and radio-electronic intelligence Sergey \u201cFlash\u201d Beskrestnov noted that Ukrainians began to hear a new eerie sound in the night sky \u2014 we are talking about jet versions of Shahed kamikaze drones, which Russia began to use in recent days.<\/a> This was the enemy\u2019s response to the successes of Ukrainian anti-aircraft drones. So far, the attacks are not massive, but the emergence of a new type of drone may change the nature of threats from the air in the coming months.<\/p>\n

By the way, Megan Mobbs, daughter of former US President’s special representative for Ukraine Keith Kellogg, said that Russia’s nighttime attack on Kyiv is a direct signal that the Kremlin is testing the resolve of the United States.<\/a><\/p>\n

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On Thursday, July 31, Russian invaders struck Kyiv with missiles and UAVs, including Shahed jets. This was announced by the Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko. “There is preliminary information that there were Shahed rocket launchers, which are not the first time they have been used on civilian and municipal infrastructure facilities in Ukraine. Experts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1033535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76874,76878,76871],"class_list":["post-1274165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-war","category-society","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1033535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}