{"id":167930,"date":"2025-06-08T15:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T15:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167930\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T15:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T15:42:12","slug":"putin-unleashes-a-summer-offensive-to-break-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167930\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin unleashes a summer offensive to break Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">AFTER WEEKS of nebulous ceasefire talks at the urging of a semi-engaged President Donald Trump, the war between Russia and Ukraine is intensifying again in savage style and with escalating stakes. In the last two weeks there have been record-breaking Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian cities and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/europe\/2025\/06\/05\/ukraine-smashes-russias-air-force-and-a-key-bridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spectacular Ukrainian drone raids<\/a> on Russia\u2019s strategic bomber force, deep inside its borders. But all this is merely a prelude to the main event: a large-scale summer offensive by Russia that aims to break Ukrainian morale and deliver president Vladimir Putin a symbolic victory at almost any cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFTER WEEKS of nebulous ceasefire talks at the urging of a semi-engaged President Donald Trump, the war between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,332,657,11409,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-167930","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-russia","11":"tag-ukraine","12":"tag-ukraine-at-war","13":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114648510920247051","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167930","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=167930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}