{"id":930,"date":"2025-07-24T01:17:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=930"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:50:14","slug":"ukrainian-drone-strikes-kill-two-in-former-olympics-host-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/ukrainian-drone-strikes-kill-two-in-former-olympics-host-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian drone strikes kill two in former Olympics host city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Two women have been killed in a strike on Sochi, officials say<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"132\" data-end=\"368\">Two women were killed and at least 11 people injured in an overnight Ukrainian drone attack on the southern Russian city of Sochi, officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"527\" data-end=\"739\">According to Veniamin Kondratyev, the governor of Krasnodar Region, the women died when debris from a downed drone fell on Aviatsionnaya Street in the Adler district. <em>\u201cBoth women died from their injuries at the scene,\u201d<\/em> he wrote on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"741\" data-end=\"973\">The drone strikes also damaged a local oil terminal in the nearby Sirius district, a sprawling resort zone that includes parts of Sochi\u2019s former Olympic Park and now serves as a popular tourist destination. The area hosted the winter games in 2014 and now features many luxury hotels, including two operated by Belgium\u2019s Radisson.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"975\" data-end=\"1188\">The head of Sirius, Dmitry Plishkin, confirmed that one drone had hit an oil facility on Tavricheskaya Street. Governor Kondratyev later added that <em>\u201cdrone fragments also struck the oil terminal.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/621855-sbu-agent-bomb-cache\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n            <span>READ MORE: <\/span>\u2018Ukrainian agent\u2019 caught in Russia was recovering explosive device \u2013 FSB<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"975\" data-end=\"1188\">Among the 11 wounded was a traffic police officer who is being airlifted to a regional hospital, the governor said. Four people in total were hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"975\" data-end=\"1188\">Local media and Telegram channels reported more than a dozen explosions in different areas, with footage showing air defense systems engaging multiple targets. Students and hotel guests in Sirius were temporarily moved to underground shelters and parking garages.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"975\" data-end=\"1188\">The attack came just hours after Russian and Ukrainian officials concluded another round of negotiations in Istanbul. Moscow proposed a limited ceasefire to allow the evacuation of wounded troops and the recovery of the dead, as well as a large-scale prisoner exchange involving at least 1,200 captured soldiers from each side.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two women have been killed in a strike on Sochi, officials say Two women were killed and at least 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}