{"id":1338768,"date":"2022-02-24T17:38:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T22:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1338768"},"modified":"2022-02-24T17:39:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T22:39:02","slug":"senior-defense-official-russia-intends-to-decapitate-ukrainian-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senior-defense-official-russia-intends-to-decapitate-ukrainian-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Defense Official: Russia Intends to Decapitate Ukrainian Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenior-defense-official-russia-intends-to-decapitate-ukrainian-government%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1338768&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Vladimir-Putin-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A senior defense official told reporters Thursday that Russia has \u201cevery intention of basically decapitating\u201d Ukraine\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re making a move on [Kyiv], yes, but what they\u2019re going to do in [Kyiv] is hard to say. We still believe, it\u2019s our assessment, that they have every intention of basically decapitating the government and installing their own method of governance,\u201d the official said during the background briefing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The assessment comes after Russia on Thursday morning began an attack on several key cities in Ukraine from three different axes \u2014 from Crimea to Kherson, Belarus to Kyiv, and Belarus to Kharkiv.<\/p>\n<p>The official emphasized that the assault is still in its initial phases. The official said that thus far,\u00a0the U.S. estimates that roughly more than 100 Russian-launched missiles of various types have hit primarily military targets in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe targets thus far [have been] primarily focused on military and air defense, so barracks, ammunition warehouses, nearly 10 airfields targeted,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The official said Russian troops have not yet moved into Western Ukraine and that U.S. troops remain outside of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The official, however, would not rule out any future deployments within Europe or even from the U.S. to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to take off the table the possibility that there will be other repositionings inside Europe or even perhaps deployments from the United States,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>The official added that the Biden Administration would continue to supply Ukraine with lethal and non-lethal aid, but said the methods might be different due to the last 12 hours. \u201cBut we\u2019re still going to look at ways that can be done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened other countries not to intervene.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow Breitbart News\u2019s Kristina Wong on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kristina_wong\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kristinawongreporting\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior defense official told reporters Thursday that Russia has \u201cevery intention of basically decapitating\u201d Ukraine\u2019s government. \u201cThey\u2019re making a move on [Kyiv], yes, but what they\u2019re going to do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}