{"id":116796,"date":"2025-05-20T10:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/116796\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T10:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:15:11","slug":"ukraine-live-putin-shows-true-colours-as-he-says-what-needs-to-happen-to-end-the-war-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/116796\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine LIVE: Putin shows true colours as he says what needs to happen to end the war | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/russia\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a> launched 112 drones at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> overnight from May 19 to 20, targeting multiple regions including Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Sumy Oblast \u2014 where 56,000 residents have now been evacuated under mandatory orders.<\/p>\n<p>The strikes came just nine hours after US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2057497\/express.co.uk\/latest\/donald-trump\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s call with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/vladimir-putin\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>, during which Mr Trump claimed ceasefire talks would begin \u201cimmediately\u201d, although Putin again rejected a 30-day truce.<\/p>\n<p>Sumy Oblast, bordering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/russia\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a>\u2019s Kursk region, faces daily attacks and has seen increasing use of guided bombs and small assault groups attempting to breach the frontier.<\/p>\n<p>Regional governor Oleh Hryhorov said over 86,000 people are subject to evacuation orders, with 65% already relocated amid intensifying cross-border assaults.<\/p>\n<p>The latest wave of evacuations follows a deadly Russian strike on a civilian bus in Bilopillia on May 17 that killed nine people \u2014 underscoring the continued threat to civilians even as diplomatic efforts are said to be under way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia launched 112 drones at Ukraine overnight from May 19 to 20, targeting multiple regions including Kharkiv, Donetsk,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[32,2000,299,2046,52466,52465,657,52464,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-116796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-putin","12":"tag-sumy-oblast-evacuations","13":"tag-trump-phone-call","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-ukraine-drone-strikes","16":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114539641132159604","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}