{"id":218155,"date":"2025-01-18T06:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T06:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/18\/explosions-heard-in-ukraines-capital\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T06:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T06:21:21","slug":"explosions-heard-in-ukraines-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/18\/explosions-heard-in-ukraines-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosions Heard in Ukraine\u2019s Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/01\/18\/multimedia\/18ukraine-explosions-bpjh\/18ukraine-explosions-bpjh-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Explosions Heard in Ukraine\u2019s Capital\" title=\"Explosions Heard in Ukraine\u2019s Capital\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Loud explosions were heard over the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early Saturday, as the authorities warned of incoming ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An air-raid alert had just ended when booms were heard throughout the city at 5:50 a.m. local time. Seconds later, air-raid sirens began to wail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The country\u2019s air-defense systems were working, the city\u2019s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, wrote on Telegram, warning of the missile threat and urging residents to stay in shelters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Shortly after, he said that emergency services were responding to the scene of a fire. The city\u2019s regional military administration said that four people had been killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Both sides in the nearly three-year war, which began with Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, have ramped up their assaults in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/15\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-missile-attack-energy.html\" title=\"\">recent weeks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">This is a developing story.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/17\/world\/europe\/explosions-ukraine.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loud explosions were heard over the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early Saturday, as the authorities warned of incoming ballistic missiles. An air-raid alert had just ended when booms were heard throughout the city at 5:50 a.m. local time. Seconds later, air-raid sirens began to wail. The country\u2019s air-defense systems were working, the city\u2019s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/01\/18\/multimedia\/18ukraine-explosions-bpjh\/18ukraine-explosions-bpjh-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2292,34283,43424,171927,168195,170073,166088,11626,171928],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218157,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218155\/revisions\/218157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}