{"id":32494,"date":"2023-03-08T10:16:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T10:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=32494"},"modified":"2023-03-08T10:16:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T10:16:28","slug":"russia-vows-to-capture-bakhmut-push-further-into-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=32494","title":{"rendered":"Russia vows to capture Bakhmut, push further into Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian army vowed on Tuesday to capture the east Ukrainian town of Bakhmut, a move President Volodymyr Zelensky said would give Moscow an &#8220;open road&#8221; for offensives deeper into his country.<\/p>\n<p>The intense fighting in the east raged on as Ukraine said it had identified a soldier filmed being shot dead in a video that sparked outrage on social media and as UN chief Antonio Guterres headed to Kyiv for talks.<\/p>\n<p>The battle for Bakhmut &#8212; a salt-mining town with a pre-war population of 80,000 &#8212; has been the longest and bloodiest in Russia&#8217;s more than year-long invasion that has devastated swathes of Ukraine and displaced millions.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has appeared intent to capture it at all costs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Capturing (Bakhmut) will allow for further offensive operations deep into the defence lines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,&#8221; Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told military officials during a televised meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the army was intent on defending Bakhmut despite a rumoured retreat under pressure from Russian forces, who have sought to capture the city for months.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/news-flash\/114374\">dhngkfdvk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian army vowed on Tuesday to capture the east Ukrainian town of Bakhmut, a move President Volodymyr Zelensky said would give Moscow an &#8220;open road&#8221; for offensives deeper into his country. The intense fighting in the east raged on as Ukraine said it had identified a soldier filmed being shot dead in a video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32496,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32494\/revisions\/32496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}