{"id":27958,"date":"2026-02-05T20:25:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=27958"},"modified":"2026-02-05T20:25:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:25:01","slug":"the-russians-entered-zaporizhia-by-surprise-crossing-the-frozen-dnieper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=27958","title":{"rendered":"The Russians entered Zaporizhia by surprise crossing the frozen Dnieper!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a surprise move, Russian military forces managed to cross the frozen Dnieper River southwest of Zaporizhia and entered the outskirts of the city, the capital of the homonymous region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the first time that Russian forces have succeeded in anchoring themselves in the city of Zaporizhia, which has a population of around 700,000 and is the third largest city they have entered in this war, after Kiev and Kharkiv, which they abandoned after the March 2022 agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An agreement that was subsequently broken by Kiev, based on a demand from Britain and then Prime Minister M. Johnson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"444\" height=\"625\" data-id=\"27961\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-13.png 444w, https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-13-213x300.png 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"299\" data-id=\"27959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-11.png 360w, https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-11-300x249.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are moving across the frozen terrain, from the town of Malokaterinivka to the Kusukhum\/Kishigym meadow in Zaporizhia, the capital of the Ukrainian Oblast of the same name, which was incorporated into the Russian Federation by a referendum in September 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The advance took place during the night and involved a special forces battalion, not armored vehicles. The attack, as shown on the map, is behind the southern Ukrainian defense line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprise move, Russian military forces managed to cross the frozen Dnieper River southwest of Zaporizhia and entered the outskirts of the city,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,7,3830],"tags":[58,1156,1976,3395],"class_list":["post-27958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-science","category-research","category-war-in-ukraine","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27962,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27958\/revisions\/27962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}