{"id":1357998,"date":"2022-03-04T07:43:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T12:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1357998"},"modified":"2022-03-04T07:56:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T12:56:34","slug":"zelensky-doesnt-know-if-ukraine-can-hold-off-russian-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zelensky-doesnt-know-if-ukraine-can-hold-off-russian-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky Doesn\u2019t Know if Ukraine Can Hold Off Russian Forces"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fzelensky-doesnt-know-if-ukraine-can-hold-off-russian-forces%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=1357998&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:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/04075628\/90-18\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ukraine\">Ukrainian<\/a> <span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">P<\/span>resident Volodymyr <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/volodymyr-zelensky\">Zelensky<\/a>, the comedian-turned-president whose leadership in the face of a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/war-in-ukraine\">Russian invasion<\/a> has drawn comparisons to Winston Churchill, admitted Thursday he doesn&#8217;t know how much longer his embattled nation can hold on. <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When asked if <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world-war-iii-has-already-started-says-ukrainian-lawmaker\">Ukraine<\/a> could hold off Russian forces advancing into the country during a press conference Thursday, Zelensky answered frankly, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; as <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/live-updates\/russia-ukraine\/?id=83184729#83228981\">reported<\/a> by ABC News. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/russians-havent-advanced-much-toward-kyiv-in-two-to-three-days-pentagon-says\">RUSSIANS HAVEN&#8217;T ADVANCED MUCH TOWARD KYIV IN &#8216;TWO TO THREE DAYS,&#8217; PENTAGON SAYS<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Despite not knowing the future of his country, the Ukrainian president said he has no intentions of leaving <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/russians-havent-advanced-much-toward-kyiv-in-two-to-three-days-pentagon-says\">Kyiv<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Zelensky also addressed support from the United States, commenting it was a &#8220;pity&#8221; it came after the war had already begun. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a pity it began after the beginning of this war, but we have it. My appreciation to [President Biden] and his team. We can speak now often,&#8221; Zelensky <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/live-news\/russia-ukraine-war-3-3-2022?test=78f2492ce8be34f41f4cc68469afd51f\">told<\/a> Fox News&#8217;s Trey Yingst. <\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\">Biden<\/a> administration has maintained it would not deploy troops to fight in Ukraine, instead supplying the county with several aid packages and weapon shipments in months leading up to Russia&#8217;s invasion last Thursday. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Zelensky&#8217;s comment, who has avoided directly answering questions about the state of Russia&#8217;s advancement into Ukraine, comes a day after Russia claimed they had taken control of <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/russia-pummels-key-port-cities-cuts-off-power-water-and-supplies-to-residents\">Kherson<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Kherson, located near the Black Sea, is reportedly the first major Ukrainian city to fall.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the comedian-turned-president whose leadership in the face of a Russian invasion has drawn comparisons to Winston Churchill, admitted Thursday he doesn&#8217;t know how much<\/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-1357998","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\/1357998","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=1357998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357998\/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=1357998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}