{"id":49762,"date":"2024-03-24T15:41:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T05:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=49762"},"modified":"2024-03-24T15:41:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T05:41:14","slug":"kyiv-and-ukraines-lviv-region-under-russian-air-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=49762","title":{"rendered":"Kyiv and Ukraine&#8217;s Lviv region under Russian air attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukraine&#8217;s capital Kyiv and the western region of Lviv were under Russian air attack early Sunday, officials said, and Polish forces were also placed on heightened readiness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Explosions in the capital. Air defence is working. Do not leave shelters,&#8221; Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko posted on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>Lviv regional governor Maksym Kozytskyi said Stryi district, south of the city of Lviv, near the Polish border, was also under attack.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine was earlier placed under a nationwide air alert that warned of cruise missiles being launched from Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers.<\/p>\n<p>The Polish Armed Forces Operational Command (RSZ) said its forces were on a heightened state of readiness because of the &#8220;intensive long-range aviation activity of the Russian Federation tonight&#8221; and the missile attacks in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All necessary procedures to ensure the security of Polish airspace have been activated and the RSZ is monitoring the situation continuously,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The RSZ also said &#8220;Polish and allied aircraft have been activated&#8221;.  Russia and Ukraine have increased their air attacks in recent weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s capital Kyiv and the western region of Lviv were under Russian air attack early Sunday, officials said, and Polish forces were also placed on heightened readiness. &#8220;Explosions in the capital. Air defence is working. Do not leave shelters,&#8221; Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko posted on Telegram. Lviv regional governor Maksym Kozytskyi said Stryi district, south [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[901],"class_list":["post-49762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-kyiv-and-ukraines-lviv-region-under-russian-air-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}