{"id":54459,"date":"2024-05-19T22:04:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T17:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=54459"},"modified":"2024-05-19T22:04:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T17:34:24","slug":"russian-forces-take-control-of-three-settlements-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/54459\/russian-forces-take-control-of-three-settlements-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian forces take control of three settlements in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Moscow&#8217;s forces have pushed into the Kharkiv region this month, home to Ukraine&#8217;s second biggest city, in what Western military analysts believe may be an attempt to carve out a so-called buffer zone to try to protect Russia&#8217;s neighboring Belgorod region from Ukrainian shelling and incursions, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>The defense ministry said in a statement that units from Russia&#8217;s &#8220;North&#8221; military grouping had captured the settlements of Hlyboke and Lukyantsi in the Kharkiv region after intense fighting and had advanced &#8220;deep into the enemy defenses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ministry spoke of heavy fighting in other parts of Kharkiv region too where it said Russian forces had repelled three Ukrainian counterattacks.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian military said late on Tuesday that Ukrainian troops had pulled back to &#8220;more advantageous&#8221; positions in two areas of the Kharkiv region. It said the fallback was &#8220;a consequence of enemy fire and storming action&#8221; and &#8220;to preserve the lives of our servicemen and avoid losses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s defense ministry said that units from its military grouping &#8220;Dnepr&#8221; had also made headway in the south, taking full control of the settlement of Robotyne in the Zaporizhzhia region.<\/p>\n<p>Russia said its air defenses had also shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 warplane along with 40 drones and a slew of U.S.-made rockets.<\/p>\n<p>SD\/PR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow&#8217;s forces have pushed into the Kharkiv region this month, home to Ukraine&#8217;s second biggest city, in what Western military analysts believe may be an attempt to carve out a so-called buffer zone to try to protect Russia&#8217;s neighboring Belgorod region from Ukrainian shelling and incursions, Reuters reported. The defense ministry said in a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7103,7100,7110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en","category-international-en","category-politic-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}