{"id":1353845,"date":"2026-02-05T09:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/powerful-explosions-in-russia-belgorod-and-rostov-suffered-drone-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:28:30","slug":"powerful-explosions-in-russia-belgorod-and-rostov-suffered-drone-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/powerful-explosions-in-russia-belgorod-and-rostov-suffered-drone-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful explosions in Russia: Belgorod and Rostov suffered drone attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Since the evening of Wednesday, February 4, powerful explosions have been heard in several cities in the Russian Federation. Belgorod and Rostov-on-Don have come under attack from drones and missiles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by Russian media.<\/p>\n<p> Explosions were heard in Belgorod, and air raid sirens sounded in the city and surrounding areas. Local authorities declared a missile alert. According to preliminary data from Russian sources, HIMARS systems may have been used in the strike.<\/p>\n<p> In the Rostov region, residents reported a massive drone attack. Explosions were heard in Rostov-on-Don itself, as well as in Taganrog, Bataysk, and Azov. Eyewitnesses claim that the drones were approaching from the Taganrog Bay, and during the night, UAVs and air defense systems could be heard flying overhead.<\/p>\n<p> The Russian side has claimed to have shot down more than a dozen air targets. There has been no information about any damage or casualties in the cities.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the evening of Wednesday, February 4, powerful explosions have been heard in several cities in the Russian Federation. Belgorod and Rostov-on-Don have come under attack from drones and missiles. This is reported by Russian media. Explosions were heard in Belgorod, and air raid sirens sounded in the city and surrounding areas. Local authorities declared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1153709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1353845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353845","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1153709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}