{"id":5192,"date":"2023-04-10T14:47:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T14:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/russian-official-claims-75\/"},"modified":"2023-04-10T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T14:53:08","slug":"russian-official-claims-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/russian-official-claims-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian official claims 75% of Bakhmut seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW (Reuters) &#8211;     The Russian-installed head of the Moscow-controlled part of Ukraine&#8217;s Donetsk region said on Monday that Russian forces controlled more than 75% of the besieged city of Bakhmut.<\/p>\n<p>The battle for Bakhmut has been one of the bloodiest of the 13-month war, drawing comparisons with World War One due to massive casualties on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow-installed regional leader Denis Pushilin published footage of himself on Telegram purportedly visiting the small mining city where battles have raged since last summer. <\/p>\n<p>He is seen among ruins, clad in body armour and with explosions audible in the background. Reuters was not able to independently confirm the location or date of the video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can say with absolute certainty, that more than 75% of the city is under the control of our units,&#8221; Pushilin told state-run Rossiya-24 TV channel after his visit, though he cautioned it was too early to talk about Bakhmut&#8217;s fall. <\/p>\n<p>Russia says the capture of Bakhmut will open up the possibility for future offensives across Ukraine, while Kyiv and the West say the now smashed city has only symbolic importance.<\/p>\n<p>In video from an unidentified underground location, Pushilin decorated fighters from the Wagner Group mercenary army that has been spearheading the assault on Bakhmut.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Reuters; editing by Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Cawthorne)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/russian-official-claims-75\/file-photo-ukrainian-service-members-fire-a-howitzer-m119-at\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTopNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ390E6-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ390E6-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW (Reuters) &#8211; The Russian-installed head of the Moscow-controlled part of Ukraine&#8217;s Donetsk region said on Monday that Russian forces controlled more than 75% of the besieged city of Bakhmut. The battle for Bakhmut has been one of the bloodiest of the 13-month war, drawing comparisons with World War One due to massive casualties on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-top-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTopNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ390E6-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5194,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions\/5194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}