{"id":28626,"date":"2026-09-05T13:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T10:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/?p=28626"},"modified":"2026-09-05T13:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T10:05:13","slug":"zelenskyi-udary-aeroporty-vizyt-ssha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/politics\/zelenskyi-udary-aeroporty-vizyt-ssha\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy linked the attacks on Kyiv\u2019s airports to an attempt to disrupt the US visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"news-lead\">President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that the night-time strikes on Boryspil and Kyiv (Zhuliany) airports were intended to disrupt the possible arrival of an American delegation by plane to the capital. According to him, the attacks were a response to discussions and preparations for an American aircraft to land at one of these airports.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-summary-box\">\n<p><strong>Briefly about the main points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zelenskyy reported that two airports in Kyiv had come under attack during the night.<\/li>\n<li>The President described them as a reaction to the preparations for the US visit.<\/li>\n<li>The discussion centred on the possibility of the flight landing at Boryspil or Zhuliany.<\/li>\n<li>Vitkoff and Kushner are due to visit Kyiv on 6 September.<\/li>\n<li>Ukrainian airspace is closed to civil aviation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The President described the motive behind the attacks as a reaction to preparations for the trip<\/h2>\n<p>According to <strong>Zelensky<\/strong>, the strikes on these airfields were the first in a long time. He described the link between the attacks and the discussion of the possibility of the American side using the aircraft to travel to Ukraine as obvious.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian President put forward the theory that the attacks were intended to disrupt the visit.<\/p>\n<h2>The visit by US representatives and aviation restrictions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Steve Witkoff<\/strong> \u0456 <strong>Jared Kushner<\/strong>, according to a statement by Zelenskyy on 4 September, are due to visit Kyiv on Sunday, 6 September, following a trip to Moscow. The President also stated that Ukraine is prepared to refrain from air strikes for the duration of their visit and called on Russia to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s airspace remains closed to civil aviation. The US State Department is maintaining its position on Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/politics\/us-travel-advisory-ukraine-level-4\/\">warning<\/a> the \u00abDo Not Travel\u00bb level, and the FAA prohibits US aviation operations to, from, within and over Ukraine.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President stated that the attacks on Kyiv\u2019s airports were linked to preparations for the arrival of the US delegation in the capital.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":207433346,"featured_media":28625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_description":"\u041f\u0440\u0435\u0437\u0438\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0442 \u0437\u0430\u044f\u0432\u0438\u0432, \u0449\u043e \u0443\u0434\u0430\u0440\u0438 \u043f\u043e \u0430\u0435\u0440\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u0430\u0445 \u041a\u0438\u0454\u0432\u0430 \u0431\u0443\u043b\u0438 \u043f\u043e\u0432\u2019\u044f\u0437\u0430\u043d\u0456 \u0437 \u043f\u0456\u0434\u0433\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0432\u043a\u043e\u044e \u043f\u0440\u0438\u043b\u044c\u043e\u0442\u0443 \u0434\u0435\u043b\u0435\u0433\u0430\u0446\u0456\u0457 \u0421\u0428\u0410 \u0434\u043e \u0441\u0442\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0446\u0456.","rank_math_title":"\u0423\u0434\u0430\u0440\u0438 \u043f\u043e \u0411\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0441\u043f\u043e\u043b\u044e: \u0417\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u043f\u0440\u043e \u0437\u0440\u0438\u0432 \u0432\u0456\u0437\u0438\u0442\u0443 \u0421\u0428\u0410","rank_math_focus_keyword":"\u0417\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439","td_subtitle":"","subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[805617],"tags":[806756],"class_list":["post-28626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-806756"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207433346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28629,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28626\/revisions\/28629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}