{"id":50431,"date":"2024-04-04T16:29:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T06:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50431"},"modified":"2024-04-04T16:29:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T06:29:48","slug":"five-dead-in-russian-strikes-on-ukraines-kharkiv-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50431","title":{"rendered":"Five dead in Russian strikes on Ukraine&#8217;s Kharkiv region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Five people were killed following Russian strikes on Ukraine&#8217;s eastern city of Kharkiv on Wednesday night, officials said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four people, including three rescue workers, were killed and five were injured in strikes on a residential buildings that had previously been bombed in a &#8220;densely populated district of Kharkiv&#8221;, mayor Igor Terekhov wrote on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>A strike in another &#8220;residential area&#8221; also killed a fifth person, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kharkiv governor Oleg Synegubov said there were &#8220;at least four&#8221; strikes on the city overnight, while Terekhov reported the use of Iranian-made Shahed drones.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s cities are the target of Russian strikes almost every night, with Kharkiv, near the northeastern border, among those most regularly attacked.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian officials have urged the country&#8217;s allies to supply more anti-aircraft defence systems, in particular modern US-made Patriot systems.<\/p>\n<p>US military aid to Ukraine has been drying up, with a $60-billion funding package currently stalled in Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five people were killed following Russian strikes on Ukraine&#8217;s eastern city of Kharkiv on Wednesday night, officials said. Four people, including three rescue workers, were killed and five were injured in strikes on a residential buildings that had previously been bombed in a &#8220;densely populated district of Kharkiv&#8221;, mayor Igor Terekhov wrote on Telegram. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1033],"class_list":["post-50431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-five-dead-in-russian-strikes-on-ukraines-kharkiv-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50431","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=50431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50431\/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=50431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}