{"id":180026,"date":"2025-12-12T16:22:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/why-does-russia-want-ukraines-donbas\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:22:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:22:32","slug":"why-does-russia-want-ukraines-donbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/why-does-russia-want-ukraines-donbas\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Russia want Ukraine\u2019s Donbas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow continues to insist that it wants Kyiv to withdraw its forces from Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donbas region, which Ukraine has been fiercely defending since 2014. What is there, and why is Moscow keen to take control of the entire area so much? <\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/12\/why-does-russia-want-ukraines-donbas\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow continues to insist that it wants Kyiv to withdraw its forces from Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donbas region, which Ukraine has been fiercely defending since 2014. What is there, and why is Moscow keen to take control of the entire area so much? Read more at Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":180027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}