{"id":193174,"date":"2025-10-08T09:26:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=193174"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:23:47","slug":"strategic-initiative-fully-in-russias-hands-in-special-operation-zone-says-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/193174\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic initiative fully in Russia\u2019s hands in special operation zone, says Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated that Russia maintains the strategic initiative in the special operations zone. He made the remark during a meeting with the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defense and the General Staff, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1tv.ru\/news\/2025-10-07\/522757-vladimir_putin_zayavil_o_sohranenii_strategicheskoy_initsiativy_v_zone_svo_za_rossiey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1tv.ru<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ukrainian armed forces are retreating along the entire contact line,&rdquo; the Russian president said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the Russian military has already brought 5,000 square kilometers and 219 settlements under its control this year.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&rsquo;s &ldquo;special military operation&rdquo; in Ukraine began on Feb. 24, 2022. Putin said the operation was prompted by NATO&rsquo;s uncontrolled eastward expansion and Ukraine&rsquo;s prospects of joining the alliance, which he claims violates prior Russia-West agreements.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated that Russia maintains the strategic initiative in the special operations zone. He made the remark during a meeting with the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defense and the General Staff, 1tv.ru reports. &ldquo;Ukrainian armed forces are retreating along the entire contact line,&rdquo; the Russian president said. He added [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":193107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193175,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193174\/revisions\/193175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}