{"id":551879,"date":"2025-11-06T01:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/551879\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T01:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:37:12","slug":"russia-and-ukraine-say-they-are-locked-in-fierce-fighting-in-pokrovsk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/551879\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia and Ukraine say they are locked in fierce fighting in Pokrovsk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    MOSCOW \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Russia said on Wednesday that its forces were advancing north inside Pokrovsk in a drive to take full control of the Ukrainian city, but the Ukrainian army said its units were battling hard to try to stop the Russians from gaining new ground.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has acknowledged that its troops face a difficult position in the strategic eastern city, once an important transport and logistics hub for the Ukrainian army, which Russia has been trying to capture for more than a year.<\/p>\n<p>Russia sees the city as the gateway to its capture of the remaining 10%, or 5,000 square kilometers of Ukraine&#8217;s eastern industrial Donbas region, one of its key aims in the almost 4-year-old war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOSCOW \u2013 Russia said on Wednesday that its forces were advancing north inside Pokrovsk in a drive to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,332,7661,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-551879","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-russia-ukraine-war","12":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115500197090729623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551879","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=551879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}