{"id":20598,"date":"2022-04-21T07:58:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T07:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=20598"},"modified":"2022-04-21T07:58:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T07:58:36","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-putin-told-force-not-to-storm-ukraine-holdout-in-mariupol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/04\/21\/russia-ukraine-war-putin-told-force-not-to-storm-ukraine-holdout-in-mariupol\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine War: Putin told force not to storm Ukraine holdout in Mariupol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his forces not to storm the last remaining Ukrainian stronghold in the besieged city of Mariupol but to block it <span class=\"typographizer-debug typographizer-debug--opening-double\">\u201c<\/span>so that not even a fly comes through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told Putin on Thursday that the sprawling Azovstal steel plant where Ukrainian forces were holed up was \u201csecurely blocked.\u201d He said the rest of the city was \u201cliberated\u201d and Putin hailed that as a \u201csuccess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leaving the plant in Ukrainian hands, however, robs the Russians of the ability to declare complete victory in Mariupol. The city<span class=\"typographizer-debug typographizer-debug--apostrophe\">\u2019<\/span>s capture has both strategic and symbolic importance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his forces not to storm the last remaining Ukrainian stronghold in the besieged city of Mariupol but to block it \u201cso that not even a fly comes through.\u201d Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told Putin on Thursday that the sprawling Azovstal steel plant where Ukrainian forces were holed up was \u201csecurely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":20600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5881,9331,6052,5657,10302,3805,71,3457,5217,3852,5882,7972,9030,5180,5521,5555,10885,694,5251],"class_list":["post-20598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-azovstal","tag-city","tag-defense-minister-sergei-shoigu","tag-mariupol","tag-plant","tag-president","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-russians","tag-steel","tag-storm","tag-success","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-ukrainian","tag-victory","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20598","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=20598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}