{"id":11237,"date":"2024-12-16T16:04:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T12:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/putin-says-russia-has-initiative-across-entire-ukraine-front\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T16:04:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T12:34:46","slug":"putin-says-russia-has-initiative-across-entire-ukraine-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/putin-says-russia-has-initiative-across-entire-ukraine-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin says Russia has initiative across entire Ukraine front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5218273.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Russian troops are firmly holding the strategic initiative along the entire line of contact,&#8221; Putin told his military generals in a televised meeting, AFP reported.<\/p>\n<p>He said Russia&#8217;s army had seized 189 Ukrainian settlements this year and called 2024 a &#8220;landmark year in the achievement of the goals of the special military operation,&#8221; using Moscow&#8217;s official language for its campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after Putin at the same meeting, Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov said Russia&#8217;s troops had seized almost 4,500 square kilometres of Ukrainian territory this year and were now gaining around 30 square kilometres a day.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/225619\/Putin-says-Russia-has-initiative-across-entire-Ukraine-front\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian troops are firmly holding the strategic initiative along the entire line of contact,&#8221; Putin told his military generals in a televised meeting, AFP reported. He said Russia&#8217;s army had seized 189 Ukrainian settlements this year and called 2024 a &#8220;landmark year in the achievement of the goals of the special military operation,&#8221; using Moscow&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-eurasia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}