{"id":582002,"date":"2023-07-08T18:38:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T15:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/zelensky-marks-500-days-of-russia-ukraine-war\/"},"modified":"2023-07-08T18:38:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T15:38:53","slug":"zelensky-marks-500-days-of-russia-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/zelensky-marks-500-days-of-russia-ukraine-war\/","title":{"rendered":"#Zelensky marks 500 days of Russia-Ukraine war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/AP23167688404347-e1687286017609.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky marked 500 days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a pre-recorded <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/en\/news\/zmiyinij-vilnij-ostriv-vilnoyi-ukrayini-zvernennya-prezident-84181\">public address<\/a> Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking from Snake Island \u2014 the small Black Sea landmass which Russian warships bombarded in the first day of the war, capturing its small Ukrainian garrison who resisted surrender \u2014 Zelensky pledged neither the island nor the country would be \u201cconquered by the occupier.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cToday, we honored here our Ukrainian heroes \u2014 all the soldiers who fought for this island, who liberated it. And although this is a small piece of land in the middle of our Black Sea, it is a great proof that Ukraine will regain every bit of its territory,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Snake Island was recaptured by the Ukrainian military last July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank \u2014 from here, from this place of victory \u2014 each of our soldiers for these 500 days,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Intense fighting continues along the eastern and southern fronts of the war as Ukraine commits to the early phases of its counteroffensive against Russian lines.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine exceeded Western expectations in the conflict after it successfully repelled a Russian push to Kyiv in the early days of the war. The nation has since received over $181 billion in humanitarian and military aid from around the world, as of May 31, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ifw-kiel.de\/publications\/media-information\/2023\/ukraine-support-tracker-despite-military-offensive-new-pledges-of-support-remain-low\/\">according to economic research nonprofit the Kiel Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. pledged an additional $800 million in military aid on Friday, including controversial cluster munitions. The U.S. has also previously pledged F-16 fighter jets and Abrams main battle tanks for the conflict.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cLet the freedom that all our heroes of different times wanted for Ukraine and that must be won right now be a tribute to all those who gave their lives for Ukraine,\u201d Zelensky said. \u201cWe will definitely win!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Speaking from Snake Island \u2014 the small Black Sea landmass which Russian warships bombarded in the first day of the war, capturing its small Ukrainian garrison who resisted surrender \u2014 Zelensky pledged neither the island nor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":582003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/AP23167688404347-e1687286017609.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[134343,73798,134661,133498,124783,4975,5019,134345,70868,126128,100713],"class_list":["post-582002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-campaign","tag-defense","tag-energy-environment","tag-in-the-know","tag-international","tag-russia","tag-space","tag-state-watch","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-volodymyr-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}