{"id":24381,"date":"2022-12-13T20:19:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T01:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=24381"},"modified":"2022-12-13T20:19:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T01:19:24","slug":"understanding-russias-relentless-assault-on-bakhmut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=24381","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Russia\u2019s relentless assault on Bakhmut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/figjcixxwawgubz-1670962485zBdK3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"277\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Bakhmut, a city with a pre-war population of 71,000, is the prime target of the Russian assault, having stood as a key Ukrainian stronghold on the Donbas front for over five months. \u201cBakhmut is the opening to Kostiantynivka, Pokrovsk, Siversk, Kramatorsk,\u201d said Cherevatyi of Russia\u2019s long-term aims in Donetsk Oblast. \u201cThese are the key goals of the push to take Donbas, and if they were ever to succeed, they will look at where to go further.\u201d According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), while the capture of Bakhmut would be significant, Russian forces would nonetheless struggle to advance deeper into Donetsk Oblast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/national\/understanding-russias-relentless-assault-on-bakhmut\">Understanding Russia\u2019s relentless assault on Bakhmut<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bakhmut, a city with a pre-war population of 71,000, is the prime&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[402,474,56],"class_list":["post-24381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}