{"id":135486,"date":"2025-05-27T08:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T08:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/135486\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T08:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T08:48:08","slug":"russia-pushes-forward-in-ukraines-northeast-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/135486\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia pushes forward in Ukraine\u2019s northeast \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV \u2014 Russia now controls four border villages in Ukraine\u2019s northeastern Sumy region, regaining a small part of territory that was liberated by Kyiv\u2019s forces in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe enemy controls the Sumy region\u2019s Novenke, Basivka, Veselivka, and Zhuravka villages. Residents of those villages were evacuated long ago, so there\u2019s no threat to the civilian population there,\u201d Oleh Hryhorov, head of Sumy\u2019s regional military administration, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hryhorov.sumska.ova\/posts\/pfbid0uv3aMBVFt5C2x9vbQPa3mqSPyRJ4he4hMsw18c3yXf8uKACdWzumA8oB76M7udPyl?rdid=7q0vmEiPTXzeHPc6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian army continues attempts to progress in the frontier region to create a so-called buffer zone, he added, which Russian President Vladimir Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/politika\/24021137\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> as a Kremlin priority last week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KYIV \u2014 Russia now controls four border villages in Ukraine\u2019s northeastern Sumy region, regaining a small part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[59403,32,660,332,657,49,333,2601,771,335,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-135486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-counteroffensive-ukraine","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-kremlin","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-ukraine","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-vladimir-putin","15":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","16":"tag-war","17":"tag-war-in-ukraine","18":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114578935242466148","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135486","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=135486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}