{"id":46871,"date":"2022-04-02T11:20:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T18:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=46871"},"modified":"2022-04-02T17:21:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T00:21:41","slug":"russia-falters-in-ukraine-but-unlikely-to-give-up-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=46871","title":{"rendered":"Russia falters in Ukraine but unlikely to give up assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is framing Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine as a \u201cstrategic blunder\u201d as Moscow\u2019s assault enters its second month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials say Putin\u2019s top aides are shielding the Russian leader from Moscow\u2019s military losses, even as Russian forces shift some of their resources away from Ukraine\u2019s capital city, Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some analysts believe the shift is a tacit acknowledgement that Russia cannot take and hold Kyiv as Putin had hoped.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But the administration is carefully stopping short of predicting an all-out Russian defeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is framing Russian&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46872,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46871\/revisions\/46872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}