{"id":1424615,"date":"2022-04-07T19:30:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T23:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424615"},"modified":"2022-04-07T19:30:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T23:30:45","slug":"defense-secretary-austin-putin-has-probably-given-up-on-taking-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defense-secretary-austin-putin-has-probably-given-up-on-taking-kyiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Secretary Austin: Putin Has &#039;Probably Given up&#039; on Taking Kyiv"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fdefense-secretary-austin-putin-has-probably-given-up-on-taking-kyiv%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=1424615&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/vladimir-putin-given-up-kyiv-ukraine-invasion\">stated<\/a> Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has \u201cprobably given up\u201d on attempting to capture the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutin thought he could really rapidly take over the country of Ukraine, very rapidly take over the capital city; he was wrong,\u201d Austin testified during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.<\/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>\u201cI think Putin has probably given up on his effort to capture the capital city and is now focused on the south and east of the country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Austin\u2019s comments come after\u00a0Putin spokesperson\u00a0Dmitry Peskov <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/ukraine-war-putins-spokesman-denies-war-crimes-but-admits-significant-russian-losses-12584552\">told<\/a> Sky News in a rare concession that Russia has experienced \u201csignificant losses of troops,\u201d since invading Ukraine on February 24th, labeling the loses a \u201chuge tragedy.\u201d\u00a0Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20220407-live-over-5-000-civilians-dead-in-ukraine-s-mariupol-says-mayor\">announced<\/a> on March 25th that 1,351 Russian soldiers had been killed\u00a0and 3,825 had been wounded\u00a0since the invasion.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. General Assembly has voted to suspend Russia from the U.N.\u2019s leading human rights body over allegations of horrific rights violations by Russian soldiers in Ukraine, which the United States and Ukraine have called tantamount to war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is the second country to have its membership rights stripped at the Human Rights Council, which was established in 2006. In 2011, the assembly suspended Libya when upheaval in the North African country brought down longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi.<\/p>\n<p>The vote on Thursday was 93-24 with 58 abstentions.<\/p>\n<p><em>The AP contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stated Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has \u201cprobably given up\u201d on attempting to capture the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv. \u201cPutin thought he could really<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"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-1424615","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\/1424615","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424615\/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=1424615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}