{"id":18860,"date":"2022-03-26T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T12:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=18860"},"modified":"2022-03-26T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T12:19:08","slug":"russian-general-yakov-rezantsev-killed-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/03\/26\/russian-general-yakov-rezantsev-killed-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian general Yakov Rezantsev killed in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-reactid=\".2505756rs4o.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623efe4b5fbc655faa01ef6a.0.6.0.0:$post_1\">Another Russian general, Lt Gen Yakov Rezantsev,\u00a0has been killed in a strike\u00a0near the southern city of Kherson, Ukraine&#8217;s defence ministry says.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".2505756rs4o.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623efe4b5fbc655faa01ef6a.0.6.0.0:$post_2\">Rezantsev was the commander of Russia&#8217;s 49th combined army.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".2505756rs4o.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623efe4b5fbc655faa01ef6a.0.6.0.0:$post_3\">A Western official says he&#8217;s the seventh general to die in Ukraine, and the second lieutenant general &#8211; the highest rank officer reported to have been killed.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".2505756rs4o.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623efe4b5fbc655faa01ef6a.0.6.0.0:$post_4\">It&#8217;s thought\u00a0low morale among Russian troops has forced senior officers closer to the front line.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".2505756rs4o.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623efe4b5fbc655faa01ef6a.0.6.0.0:$post_5\">Ukrainian media reports the general was killed at the Chornobaivka airbase, which Russia is using as a command post and has been attacked by Ukraine&#8217;s military several times.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".2505756rs4o.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-623efe4b5fbc655faa01ef6a.0.6.0.0:$post_5\">source:bbc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Russian general, Lt Gen Yakov Rezantsev,\u00a0has been killed in a strike\u00a0near the southern city of Kherson, Ukraine&#8217;s defence ministry says. Rezantsev was the commander of Russia&#8217;s 49th combined army. A Western official says he&#8217;s the seventh general to die in Ukraine, and the second lieutenant general &#8211; the highest rank officer reported to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[8217,2735,9331,10505,11638,7601,9515,5572,3457,5217,11233,5818,11906,9178,5180,5555],"class_list":["post-18860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-army","tag-bbc","tag-city","tag-die","tag-forced","tag-kherson","tag-killed","tag-military","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-russian-troops","tag-strike","tag-the-general","tag-troops","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}