{"id":1194151,"date":"2026-09-09T00:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1194151\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T00:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:45:17","slug":"russian-drive-on-donetsk-region-puts-kyivs-new-commanders-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1194151\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian drive on Donetsk region puts Kyiv\u2019s new commanders to the test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV \u2013 Ukraine is bracing for months of fierce fighting over key strongholds in the eastern Donetsk region that are at the heart of Russia\u2019s war aims, in the first major test for Kyiv\u2019s incoming top general, Mykhailo Drapatyi, and his new commanders.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow\u2019s larger forces have been inching toward the \u201cfortress belt\u201d cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, the capture of which would bring Russia closer to its goal of seizing the entire industrialized Donetsk region.<\/p>\n<p>The human toll has already been high, and, despite renewed diplomatic contacts, military analysts expect Russia to intensify its offensive as winter approaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KYIV \u2013 Ukraine is bracing for months of fierce fighting over key strongholds in the eastern Donetsk region&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1194152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332,7661,657],"class_list":["post-1194151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-russia","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117238322223984640","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194151","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=1194151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1194152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}