{"id":5594,"date":"2026-10-04T16:56:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/russia-escalates-attacks-on-kyiv-bridges\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T16:56:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:56:48","slug":"russia-escalates-attacks-on-kyiv-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/russia-escalates-attacks-on-kyiv-bridges\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Escalates Attacks on Kyiv Bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FbCsrnLywWAs%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Russia BOMBARDS Ukraine with drones, HITS key bridges\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bCsrnLywWAs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> KYIV, Ukraine \u2013 October 4, 2026 (STL.News) Russia launched 135 drones and other unmanned aerial weapons at Ukraine overnight and struck Kyiv\u2019s Northern Bridge on Sunday, extending a series of attacks on critical transportation infrastructure as Moscow said it would intensify strikes against Ukraine. The latest barrage coincided with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz\u2019s visit to Kyiv, where he announced more than \u20ac1.3 billion in additional military and energy support for Ukraine. Ukraine\u2019s Air Force said Russia launched 135 drones beginning Saturday evening. The attack included Shahed-type drones, Gerbera drones, Parodiya-type decoys and Banderol\/Dan-T systems. The Air Force said<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/russia-escalates-attacks-on-kyiv-bridges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV, Ukraine \u2013 October 4, 2026 (STL.News) Russia launched 135 drones and other unmanned aerial weapons at Ukraine overnight and struck Kyiv\u2019s Northern Bridge on Sunday, extending a series of attacks on critical transportation infrastructure as Moscow said it would&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5596,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions\/5596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}