{"id":17604,"date":"2026-01-01T18:45:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=17604"},"modified":"2026-01-01T18:45:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:45:57","slug":"new-year-2026-begins-with-deadly-exchanges-between-russia-and-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/01\/01\/new-year-2026-begins-with-deadly-exchanges-between-russia-and-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year 2026 begins with deadly exchanges between Russia and Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Russia and Ukraine have marked the start of the New Year 2026 with deadly and devastating attacks against each other.<br>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on X that Russian forces targeted seven regions of Ukraine with 200 drones on New Year&#8217;s Eve.<br>On the other hand, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced in a statement that Ukrainian forces struck a hotel and caf\u00e9 in the city of Kherson, currently under Russian control, killing 24 people, including one child.<br>According to the Ukrainian president, the Russian drones targeted the provinces of &#8220;Volyn, Rivne, Zaporizhia, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv.&#8221; He noted that while most of the drones were intercepted before reaching their targets, some hit Ukraine&#8217;s energy infrastructure.<br>Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that the Ukrainian attack targeted a gathering of people celebrating the New Year. Ukrainian officials have yet to comment on this claim from the Russian Ministry.<br>It is noteworthy that in less than two months, it will be four years since Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Russia and Ukraine have marked the start of the New Year 2026 with deadly and devastating attacks against each other.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on X that Russian forces targeted seven regions of Ukraine with 200 drones on New Year&#8217;s Eve.On the other hand, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced in a statement that Ukrainian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17606,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17604\/revisions\/17606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}