{"id":25338,"date":"2022-09-05T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=25338"},"modified":"2022-09-05T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T07:00:09","slug":"offensive-is-making-progress-zelenskiy-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/09\/05\/offensive-is-making-progress-zelenskiy-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Offensive is making progress, Zelenskiy claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\"><strong>Ukraine\u2019s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly address on Sunday that\u00a0<\/strong>progress was being made to \u201cliberate all our lands, all our people\u201d after the beginning of the counteroffensive against the Russians in the south.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">\u201cThe Armed Forces of Ukraine, our intelligence, special services are already taking the necessary steps for this,\u201d\u00a0Zelenskiy said in a speech posted on Facebook. \u201cThese steps can be heard. And everyone can see that the occupiers have already started fleeing Crimea. This is the right choice for all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"4ded3895-a238-42df-9f76-71dac5ccc429\" class=\" dcr-10khgmf\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1b267dg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"dcr-4zleql\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/39e4c355e2bdccc4297aa6c0aab78e2b3f176a1c\/0_0_4000_2667\/master\/4000.jpg?width=700&amp;quality=85&amp;fit=max&amp;s=41a2d499b70484974431135b107a9d4a\" alt=\"Smoke rises at the front line near Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine.\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2667\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"dcr-w6u133\"><span class=\"dcr-19x4pdv\">Smoke rises at the front line near Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine.<\/span>\u00a0Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">He also thanked the \u201cwarriors of the 63rd battalion of the 103rd territorial defense brigade\u201d who liberated a settlement in the Donetsk region. The \u201c54th brigade in the Lysychansk-Siversk direction also took good steps, advanced and regained certain heights\u201d, while the \u201c42nd separate motorized infantry battalion &#8211; thanks to its heroic actions, two settlements in the south of our country were liberated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the president\u2019s office, posted an image of soldiers raising the Ukrainian flag over a village he said was in Ukraine\u2019s south. \u201cVysokopillya. Kherson region. Ukraine. Today,\u201d Tymoshenko wrote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly address on Sunday that\u00a0progress was being made to \u201cliberate all our lands, all our people\u201d after the beginning of the counteroffensive against the Russians in the south. \u201cThe Armed Forces of Ukraine, our intelligence, special services are already taking the necessary steps for this,\u201d\u00a0Zelenskiy said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11830,6623,6193,5468,7601,7839,6618,7840,5766,3805,3852,11179,5618,10041,5180,6885,7841,5555,6886,7838,594,6874],"class_list":["post-25338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-armed-forces","tag-crimea","tag-donetsk","tag-facebook","tag-kherson","tag-kyrylo-tymoshenko","tag-lysychansk","tag-lysychansk-siversk","tag-mykolaiv","tag-president","tag-russians","tag-smoke","tag-soldiers","tag-speech","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraines-president","tag-ukraines-president-volodymyr-zelenskiy","tag-ukrainian","tag-volodymyr-zelenskiy","tag-vysokopillya","tag-who","tag-zelenskiy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25338","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=25338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}