{"id":12854,"date":"2022-07-03T21:35:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T21:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/russia-claims-control-of-lysychansk-a-pivotal-city-in-eastern-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2022-07-03T21:35:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T21:35:34","slug":"russia-claims-control-of-lysychansk-a-pivotal-city-in-eastern-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=12854","title":{"rendered":"Russia claims control of Lysychansk, a pivotal city in eastern Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SqWa6tiiYeI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Russia on Sunday claimed full control of the easter Ukrainian city of Lysychansk, though Ukrainian President Zelenskyy insisted fierce fighting there is not over yet. The city  is the last major Ukrainian stronghold in the Luhansk province. If Lysychansk is seized, it will bring Moscow a large step closer to its goal of capturing all of the Donbas region. Lisa Desjardins reports.<\/p>\n<p>Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG<\/a><br \/>\nFind more from PBS NewsHour at\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nFacebook:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe:<br \/>\nPBS NewsHour podcasts:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts<\/a><br \/>\nNewsletters:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia on Sunday claimed full control of the easter Ukrainian city of Lysychansk, though Ukrainian President Zelenskyy insisted fierce fighting there is not over yet. The city is the last major Ukrainian stronghold in the Luhansk province. If Lysychansk is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4988],"tags":[5294,5295,5277,5073,1441,5286,5287,5278,5288,5289,5290,13903,5291,5074,5090,5281,5292,5282,5283,5284,5280,5279,5275,5085],"class_list":["post-12854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","category-politics-feed","tag-nato","tag-russian-forces","tag-eu-russia","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-russia-invade-ukraine","tag-russia-militarization","tag-russian-arms","tag-russian-invasion","tag-russian-invasion-ukraine","tag-russian-sanctions","tag-russian-ukraine-tensions","tag-sanctions-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-russia","tag-ukraine-russia-border","tag-ukraine-russia-conflict","tag-ukraine-sovereignty","tag-ukrainian-independence","tag-ukrainian-troops","tag-us-russia","tag-us-ukraine","tag-war-in-ukraine","tag-zelenskyy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}