{"id":659029,"date":"2025-12-28T03:50:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T03:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/659029\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T03:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T03:50:23","slug":"russia-claims-capture-of-two-more-eastern-ukraine-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/659029\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Claims Capture of Two More Eastern Ukraine Towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/militaryai.ai\/\" aria-label=\"Military AI banner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Military-AI-banner.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"1470\" height=\"620\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia claimed on Saturday to have captured two more towns in eastern Ukraine, Myrnograd and Guliaipole, a day ahead of Ukrainian President<strong> Volodymyr Zelensky<\/strong>\u2018s meeting with US President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A Kremlin statement said Russian President <strong>Vladimir Putin <\/strong>had received a report from military command on \u201cthe liberation of Dimitrov (the Russian name for Myrnograd) and of\u00a0Guliaipole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Myrnograd is in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, near Pokrovsk, a <a href=\"https:\/\/thedefensepost.com\/2025\/12\/02\/russia-pokrovsk-vovchansk-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">key logistical hub that Russia claimed to have captured on December 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Guliaipole is in the eastern part of Zaporizhzhia, where Russian advances have been more rare, but which have accelerated in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said the offensives on both areas of the front were \u201cintensifying the pressure\u201d on the Ukrainian army, in comments broadcast on television.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow\u2019s announcement of these latest advances comes a day before Zelensky is due in the United States for talks with Trump on the plan he had drawn up to stop the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the authorities in Kyiv don\u2019t want to settle this business peacefully, we\u2019ll resolve all the problems before us by military means,\u201d Putin said Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia claimed on Saturday to have captured two more towns in eastern Ukraine, Myrnograd and Guliaipole, a day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-659029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia","9":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115795161001789519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659029","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=659029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}