{"id":25335,"date":"2022-09-05T06:54:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T06:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=25335"},"modified":"2022-09-05T06:54:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T06:54:58","slug":"uk-ministry-of-defence-says-donbas-remains-russias-main-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/09\/05\/uk-ministry-of-defence-says-donbas-remains-russias-main-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Ministry of Defence says Donbas remains Russia&#8217;s main focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"block-631588aa8f0891b09bc875ff\" class=\"block false dcr-f3pcia\">\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\"><strong>The UK Ministry of Defence says in its morning intelligence update<\/strong>\u00a0that despite the Russian military\u2019s efforts to contain the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the south, it is focused on conquering the Donbas region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">Russia\u2019s main \u201caxes of advance remain at Avdiivka near Donetsk City and, 60km to the north, around Bakhmut\u201d, the MoD said in a tweet on Monday morning, \u201c\u2026 but its forces have still only been advancing around 1km per week towards Bakhmut.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"1856c561-cb8f-451d-aa2b-dd56d7dafc8e\" class=\" dcr-10khgmf\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TweetBlockElement\">\n<div id=\"tweet-container-1856c561-cb8f-451d-aa2b-dd56d7dafc8e\" class=\"dcr-ard5ae\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">\u201cThe political goal of the Donbas operation almost certainly remains to secure the whole of Donetsk Oblast, which would enable the Kremlin to announce the \u2018liberation\u2019 of the Donbas. Russian forces have highly likely repeatedly missed deadlines to achieve this aim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">\u201cThe Ukrainian authorities have claimed that Russian forces are now under orders to complete this mission by 15 September 2022. The force is highly unlikely to achieve this, which will further complicate Russia\u2019s plans to run referendums on the occupied areas joining the Russian Federation.\u201d<\/p>\n<footer class=\"dcr-1eoy87d\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"block-63157faa8f08fcd6b75e2a94\" class=\"block false dcr-f3pcia\">\n<header class=\"dcr-hmma49\">\n<div class=\"dcr-zjik7\"><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Ministry of Defence says in its morning intelligence update\u00a0that despite the Russian military\u2019s efforts to contain the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the south, it is focused on conquering the Donbas region. Russia\u2019s main \u201caxes of advance remain at Avdiivka near Donetsk City and, 60km to the north, around Bakhmut\u201d, the MoD said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11023,7602,9331,5995,6193,1152,5572,7964,8890,3457,5217,12605,11247,5180,5555,3954],"class_list":["post-25335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-avdiivka","tag-bakhmut","tag-city","tag-donbas","tag-donetsk","tag-kremlin","tag-military","tag-north","tag-oblast","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-uk","tag-uk-ministry-of-defence","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian","tag-will"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25335","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=25335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}