{"id":249109,"date":"2022-05-27T08:37:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T13:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=249109"},"modified":"2022-05-27T08:37:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T13:37:43","slug":"russia-squeezes-ukrainian-strongholds-in-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=249109","title":{"rendered":"Russia Squeezes Ukrainian Strongholds in East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Russia-backed separatists claim they have captured a railway hub city in eastern Ukraine&#8217;s Donbas region. Moscow\u2019s forces strived to gain more ground on Friday by pounding another Ukrainian-held area where authorities say 1,500 people have died since the start of the war. Ukrainian officials didn&#8217;t confirm the separatist&#8217;s claim about taking the city of Lyman. The fighting on Friday focused on two other key cities, Sievierodonetsk and nearby Lysychansk. Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister warned that without a new injection of foreign weapons, Ukrainian forces would not be able to stop Russia&#8217;s advance in the Donbas. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had strong words for the European Union not agreeing to embargo Russian oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Russia-backed separatists claim they have captured a railway hub city in eastern Ukraine&#8217;s Donbas region. Moscow\u2019s forces strived to gain more ground on Friday by pounding another Ukrainian-held area where authorities say 1,500 people have died since the start of the war. Ukrainian officials didn&#8217;t confirm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":249110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249111,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249109\/revisions\/249111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/249110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}