{"id":1400296,"date":"2026-06-02T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-has-changed-its-tactics-in-attacking-kyiv\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:00:19","slug":"russia-has-changed-its-tactics-in-attacking-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-has-changed-its-tactics-in-attacking-kyiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia has changed its tactics in attacking Kyiv."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"95\" data-end=\"280\"><strong>During the massive attack on Kyiv on June 2, Russian forces resorted to a change in tactics, launching an additional missile strike in the morning, while the aftermath of the night&#8217;s shelling was still being dealt with.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"282\" data-end=\"357\"> <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Yurii Ihnat<\/span><\/span> reported this on the air of &#8220;Apostrophe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"359\" data-end=\"516\"> According to him, after the main wave of the attack ended, it might have seemed that the danger had passed, but the Russians deliberately launched a new attack on the capital.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"518\" data-end=\"778\"> &#8220;This is a slight tactical shift, to avoid making the strike typical, where everything flies at once. It&#8217;s as if the attack is over, allowing us to catch our breath, regroup our forces, reload our air defenses, and prepare our equipment. In fact, that&#8217;s exactly what the enemy was counting on,&#8221; Ignat explained.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"780\" data-end=\"933\"> He emphasized that even units that repel air attacks around the clock need time to restore combat capability and prepare for new threats.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"935\" data-end=\"1114\"> According to the Ukrainian Air Force, at approximately 7:16 AM, Russian forces launched ballistic missiles at Kyiv. Following the air raid siren, a series of powerful explosions were heard in the capital.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1116\" data-end=\"1301\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> The Air Force notes that such tactics could be aimed at complicating the work of air defense forces and emergency services dealing with the aftermath of previous strikes.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1186\" data-end=\"1344\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/armiia-rf-masovano-atakuvala-kyiv-ie-zahybli-desiatky-poranenykh\/\">on the night of Tuesday, June 2, Russian occupation forces<\/a> launched a massive attack on Kyiv. 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Yurii Ihnat reported this on the air of &#8220;Apostrophe&#8221;. According to him, after the main wave of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1400253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875,76928],"class_list":["post-1400296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news","category-kyiv-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400296","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1400253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}