{"id":37630,"date":"2024-02-16T03:26:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T03:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=37630"},"modified":"2024-02-16T03:26:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T03:26:13","slug":"ukraine-russia-war-us-warns-avdiivka-could-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=37630","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Russia war: US warns Avdiivka could fall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The US has warned that Russia could seize Ukraine&#8217;s key eastern town of Avdiivka &#8211; the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in recent months.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Avdiivka is at risk of falling into Russian control,&#8221; National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said, citing Ukraine&#8217;s ammunition shortages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to do everything to &#8220;save as many Ukrainian lives as possible&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian troops have made gains in Avdiivka, threatening to encircle it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The town &#8211; which has been almost completely destroyed &#8211; is seen as a gateway to nearby Donetsk, the regional Ukrainian capital seized by Russian-backed fighters in 2014 and later illegitimately annexed by Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: The US has warned that Russia could seize Ukraine&#8217;s key eastern town of Avdiivka &#8211; the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in recent months. &#8220;Avdiivka is at risk of falling into Russian control,&#8221; National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said, citing Ukraine&#8217;s ammunition shortages. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to do everything to &#8220;save as many Ukrainian lives as possible&#8221;. Russian troops have made gains in Avdiivka, threatening to encircle it. The town &#8211; which has been almost completely destroyed &#8211; is seen as a gateway to nearby Donetsk, the regional Ukrainian capital seized by Russian-backed&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37632,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37630\/revisions\/37632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}