{"id":1392927,"date":"2026-05-13T19:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/after-drone-attacks-russia-may-launch-missiles-at-ukraine-zelensky\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:00:34","slug":"after-drone-attacks-russia-may-launch-missiles-at-ukraine-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/after-drone-attacks-russia-may-launch-missiles-at-ukraine-zelensky\/","title":{"rendered":"After drone attacks, Russia may launch missiles at Ukraine \u2013 Zelensky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"821\" data-end=\"960\"><strong>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that after waves of massive drone attacks, Russia may resort to missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"962\" data-end=\"1012\"> The head of state <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/V_Zelenskiy_official\/19004\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> this on his Telegram channel.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1014\" data-end=\"1130\"> According to the president, Ukrainian intelligence is recording a high probability of new missile launches after drone attacks.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1132\" data-end=\"1259\"> &#8220;According to our intelligence, after all the waves of drones, missile launches against Ukraine are also quite possible,&#8221; Zelenskyy stressed.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1261\" data-end=\"1426\"> He noted that the Russian army is trying to overload the Ukrainian air defense system and inflict as much pain as possible on the civilian population during these very days.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1428\" data-end=\"1537\"> &#8220;Russia&#8217;s obvious goal is to overload air defenses and cause as much grief and pain as possible,&#8221; the president emphasized.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1539\" data-end=\"1633\"> Zelenskyy called on international partners not to remain silent and to increase pressure on the Russian aggressor.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1635\" data-end=\"1782\"> The President emphasized that Russia&#8217;s true intentions must be obvious to world leaders, and terror against Ukraine must receive a tough response.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1784\" data-end=\"1938\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> He also reported that all services are currently working to eliminate the consequences of enemy strikes and urged Ukrainians not to ignore air raid signals.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1784\" data-end=\"1938\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> As previously reported, Russian forces launched a massive attack on several regions of Ukraine with drones on May 13. <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiia-masovano-b-ie-po-ukraini-de-lunaiut-vybukhy\/\">Explosions were heard in Odessa, Lutsk, Kyiv, Kherson, Transcarpathia, and Rivne Oblast<\/a> . There were deaths, injuries, fires, and damage to civilian infrastructure. <\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2219\" data-end=\"2335\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/masovanyy-udar-po-dnipru-desiatky-budynkiv-poshkodzheni-ie-zahybli-ta-poraneni\/\">&#8220;Pryamiy&#8221; reported that after the night attack by the Russian Federation,<\/a> the city of Dnipro suffered significant destruction &#8211; residential buildings and social infrastructure facilities were damaged, there were victims and injured. The attack occurred on the night of April 25.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<aside class=\"mark-post js__votes_block js_single-ask\" data-id=\"1392772\" data-nonce=\"2caad376ed\"><\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that after waves of massive drone attacks, Russia may resort to missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine. The head of state announced this on his Telegram channel. According to the president, Ukrainian intelligence is recording a high probability of new missile launches after drone attacks. &#8220;According to our intelligence, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1294698,"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-1392927","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\/1392927","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}