{"id":30151,"date":"2026-08-18T10:35:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=30151"},"modified":"2026-08-18T10:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:36:42","slug":"ukraine-war-still-not-going-so-well-for-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/18\/ukraine-war-still-not-going-so-well-for-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"color:red; font-weight:900;\">UKRAINE WAR:<\/span> Still not going so well for Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drone war takes its toll\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Guardian: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/aug\/18\/ukraine-drone-chase-videos-russian-soldiers\">\u2018Our task is to laugh at these enemies\u2019: the Ukrainian unit posting drone videos of Russian soldiers\u2019 last moments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/08\/18\/russians-pull-cash-banks-fearing-kremlin-will-seize-deposits-war\/\">Russians are withdrawing billions from their banks, causing liquidity problems for banks and undermining the Kremlin\u2019s ability to issue bonds to finance the fight in Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drone war takes its toll\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30151","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\/30151","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=30151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}