{"id":28017,"date":"2026-07-16T10:04:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=28017"},"modified":"2026-07-16T10:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:04:52","slug":"ukraine-war-agita-in-kyiv-as-zelenskyy-dismisses-defense-minister-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/16\/ukraine-war-agita-in-kyiv-as-zelenskyy-dismisses-defense-minister-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine War: Agita in Kyiv as Zelenskyy Dismisses Defense Minister &#8211; But\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 on the other hand, things are not going well for Vladimir Putin\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/7\/16\/kyiv-under-fire-from-russian-missiles-after-eu-ukraine-sign-drone-deal\">Two killed in Russian missile attacks on Kyiv after Ukraine-EU drone deal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/ukraine\/ukraine-russia-ships-sea-azov-putin-crimea-rcna587419\">Ukraine hammers Russian shipping, opening new front in campaign to pressure Putin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/15\/world\/europe\/ukraine-minister-of-defense-mykhailo-fedorov-zelensky-war-russia.html\">Ukraine\u2019s Minister of Defense, a Proponent of Drone Warfare, Is Forced Out<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cdx76069n3do\">Protests sweep Ukrainian cities against Zelensky&#8217;s removal of defence minister<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EU Observer: <a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/228762\/russia-and-china-have-a-plan-to-disable-starlink-as-ukraine-war-comes-to-space-ukraine-battlefield-update-day-1604\/\">Russia and China have a plan to disable Starlink, as Ukraine war comes to space<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NY Times: Yes, &#8216;a million men with Kalashnikovs are dangerous&#8217;, but Putin may not be able to do that \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/16\/opinion\/russia-ukraine-putin-zelensky.html\">David French and Michael Kofman on the state of play<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 on the other hand, things are not going well for Vladimir Putin\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28019,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28017\/revisions\/28019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}