unclear wording: “Crimea repelled a drone attack”?

Just heard it on the news. I'm not concerned with the content of this news story, but rather with the misleading wording. It is not clear to me whether drones were repelled or whether the defense was carried out with drones. What are the sentence elements called (subject – predicate – object?) and how do…

Grammar question: "God was the Word" – what are the sentence components called?

Is that right: God = subject of the sentence and is a noun was = auxiliary verb the = definite article Word = object of the sentence and is a noun …………………. Or does this also work: God = adverb to the noun word was = auxiliary verb the = definite article Word = noun…