{"id":48088,"date":"2024-02-20T15:26:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T05:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=48088"},"modified":"2024-02-20T15:26:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T05:26:54","slug":"zelensky-says-frontline-situation-difficult-due-to-aid-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=48088","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky says frontline situation &#8216;difficult&#8217; due to aid &#8216;delays&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday said his troops were facing complicated fighting along sections of the sprawling front line, with delays in Western military aid impacting his army.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moscow&#8217;s forces are back on the offensive in eastern and southern Ukraine, and captured Avdiivka in the eastern Donetsk region, securing their first major gain since taking Bakhmut in May 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The situation is extremely difficult in several parts of the front line, where Russian troops have concentrated maximum reserves,&#8221; Zelensky said.<\/p>\n<p>He was returning from a trip to brigades around the northeastern city of Kupiansk, in the frontline Kharkiv region.<\/p>\n<p>Russian troops &#8220;are taking advantage of the delays in helping Ukraine,&#8221; Zelensky continued, adding his country faced artillery shortages and needed frontline air defence capabilities as well as longer-range weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Ukrainian troops said they were facing &#8220;heavy fire&#8221; from advancing Russian forces in the southern Zaporizhzhia region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday said his troops were facing complicated fighting along sections of the sprawling front line, with delays in Western military aid impacting his army. Moscow&#8217;s forces are back on the offensive in eastern and southern Ukraine, and captured Avdiivka in the eastern Donetsk region, securing their first major gain since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[554],"class_list":["post-48088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-zelensky-says-frontline-situation-difficult-due-to-aid-delays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}