{"id":1639262,"date":"2022-09-12T14:07:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T18:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1639262"},"modified":"2022-09-12T14:07:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T18:07:52","slug":"russian-troops-on-the-run-in-eastern-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-troops-on-the-run-in-eastern-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Troops on the Run in Eastern Ukraine"},"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\">16<\/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%2Frussian-troops-on-the-run-in-eastern-ukraine%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=1639262&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Ukraine liberates dozens of settlements in Kharkiv region offensive<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tUkrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky (Getty Images)<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/anna-allen\/\" title=\"Posts by Anna Allen\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Anna Allen<\/a> \u2022 September 12, 2022 2:03 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Ukrainian forces blew through Russian defense lines this weekend and recovered most of the eastern Kharkiv region in a swift armored offensive, the Associated Press <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-kyiv-kharkiv-a691ab16016aab01cedb68ea5e247b37\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> Monday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ukraine has recaptured more than 1,100 square miles of territory in the eastern region since the beginning of September and pushed Russia all the way to the northeastern border in some places. On Friday, Russian troops <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/10\/europe\/ukraine-kharkiv-advances-intl-hnk\/index.html\"><span>fled<\/span><\/a><span> a key military base in the city of Izium, which they have occupied for the past five months.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>More than <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/europe\/live-news\/russia-ukraine-war-news-09-11-22\/index.html\"><span>40 settlements<\/span><\/a><span> in the Kharkiv region have been liberated, Ukrainian officials reported Sunday. Roman Semenukha, deputy head of the Kharkiv region military administration, told Ukrainian television, &#8220;We can officially announce the liberation of more than 40 settlements. The situation is changing incredibly quickly and there are many, many more such [de-occupied] settlements.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ukraine&#8217;s successful offensive\u2014its most ambitious ground assault yet\u2014may mark a new phase in their war with Russia, CNN <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/europe\/live-news\/russia-ukraine-war-news-09-11-22\/index.html\"><span>reports<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Poorly organized and equipped, Russian troops <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/11\/europe\/ukraine-russia-eastern-front\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retreated quickly<\/a> and chaotically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Russians escaped and left weapons and ammo behind. City center is free,&#8221; a spokesperson for the Bohun Brigade of the Land Forces of Ukraine said in a statement Saturday afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dmytro Hrushchenko, a resident of the recently liberated Zaliznychne, described the Russian retreat to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-kyiv-kharkiv-a691ab16016aab01cedb68ea5e247b37\"><span>Sky News<\/span><\/a><span>: &#8220;The Russians were here in the morning. Then at noon, they suddenly started shouting wildly and began to run away, charging off in tanks and armored vehicles.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Even\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/10\/world\/europe\/russia-ukraine-retreat-putin.html\">pro-Kremlin bloggers<\/a> and Putin loyalists are losing faith in their leader, criticizing the president for his handling of the invasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite the retreat, Russia insists the war will continue. &#8220;We do not currently see any negotiation prospects and continue to state the absence of any prerequisites for such negotiations,&#8221; the Kremlin\u2019s spokesman Dmitry Peskov <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/09\/12\/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> in a press release.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Ukraine liberates dozens of settlements in Kharkiv region offensive  Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky (Getty Images)  Anna Allen \u2022 September 12, 2022 2:03 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"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-1639262","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\/1639262","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\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639262\/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=1639262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}