{"id":118683,"date":"2025-05-21T02:53:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T02:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/118683\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T02:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T02:53:22","slug":"russian-army-claims-advances-in-sumy-as-ukraine-orders-evacuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/118683\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Army Claims Advances in Sumy as Ukraine Orders Evacuations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"158\" data-end=\"358\">Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mod_russia_en\/21327\" title=\"claimed\">claimed<\/a> the capture of another village in Ukraine\u2019s northeastern Sumy region, as local authorities issued fresh evacuation orders following deadly attacks on civilian areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"360\" data-end=\"683\">The village of Marine, located less than 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the Russian border, sits on a highway linking the city of Sumy to the Russian town of Sudzha in the Kursk region. It is the furthest point Russian forces have reportedly reached in Sumy after earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2025\/04\/06\/russia-says-captured-village-in-ukraines-sumy-border-region-a88624\" title=\"capturing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">capturing<\/a> several border villages in March and April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"685\" data-end=\"888\">Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2025\/05\/02\/russian-military-says-creating-security-belt-around-border-in-ukraines-sumy-region-a88954\" title=\"said\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> this month its forces were creating a \u201cbuffer zone\u201d along the Sumy-Kursk border, following a proposal by President Vladimir Putin during a visit to the area earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"890\" data-end=\"1139\">The initiative came after Russia\u2019s Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2025\/05\/02\/russian-military-says-creating-security-belt-around-border-in-ukraines-sumy-region-a88954\" title=\"told\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Putin that the Kursk region had been \u201cfully liberated\u201d with the help of North Korean soldiers. Ukrainian forces occupied parts of the border region following a surprise incursion in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1393\" data-end=\"1580\">After Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry announced the capture of Marine, Sumy region Governor Oleh Hryhorov <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=556557550838909&amp;rdid=Bl5hJstIsFFoIX9J\" title=\"said\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> nearly 56,000 of the more than 86,000 residents subject to a mandatory evacuation order had relocated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1582\" data-end=\"1748\">The latest evacuations followed a Russian drone strike on a minibus in the Sumy region town of Bilopilia on Saturday that killed nine people and injured seven others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1141\" data-end=\"1391\">On Friday, direct peace talks between Russia and Ukraine resumed in Turkey. A source familiar with the negotiations told AFP that Moscow had threatened to seize Ukraine\u2019s Sumy and Kharkiv regions despite previously making no formal territorial claims to either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry on Monday claimed the capture of another village in Ukraine\u2019s northeastern Sumy region, as local&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,11412,657,753],"class_list":{"0":"post-118683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-sumy","11":"tag-ukraine","12":"tag-ukraine-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114543565397805653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118683","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=118683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}