{"id":16389,"date":"2026-05-04T09:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=16389"},"modified":"2026-05-04T09:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:29:12","slug":"russian-air-defence-active-over-zaporozhye-ukrainian-manpower-eliminated-in-dobropolye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=16389","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Russian Air Defence Active Over Zaporozhye, Ukrainian Manpower Eliminated in Dobropolye<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow. The Russian Defence Ministry has reported fresh progress on various fronts as part of operations against Ukrainian forces. According to the Ministry, air cover groups of the Vostok Group intercepted enemy drones over the Zaporozhye region on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, attack UAVs of the Tsentr Group eliminated manpower, hardware, and mortars of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Dobropolye and Dnepropetrovsk directions, the Russian side claimed. 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Meanwhile, attack UAVs of the Tsentr Group eliminated manpower, hardware, and mortars of the Armed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Russian Air Defence Active Over Zaporozhye, Ukrainian Manpower Eliminated in Dobropolye - Dragon Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=16389\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Russian Air Defence Active Over Zaporozhye, Ukrainian Manpower Eliminated in Dobropolye - Dragon Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Moscow. 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