{"id":1868,"date":"2025-08-20T04:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:53:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:53:45","slug":"retreating-ukraine-boasts-it-knows-how-to-kill-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/retreating-ukraine-boasts-it-knows-how-to-kill-russians\/","title":{"rendered":"Retreating Ukraine boasts it \u2018knows how to kill Russians\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The country could be NATO\u2019s bulwark against Moscow, Kiev\u2019s ambassador to Poland has suggested<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"193\" data-end=\"436\">The Ukrainian military&#8217;s skill at killing Russians should be enough to have it admitted to NATO, Kiev\u2019s ambassador to Poland, Vasily Bodnar, has claimed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"603\" data-end=\"804\">Bodnar\u00a0presented Ukraine as a bulwark against Russia despite US President Donald Trump reiterating on Monday that\u00a0Kiev&#8217;s application to join the US-led military bloc is dead\u00a0and that he would not deploy American troops to the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"806\" data-end=\"1127\"><em>\u201cIf Russia attacks NATO countries tomorrow without Ukraine on NATO\u2019s side, it would be much more difficult than with Ukraine. That\u2019s why Ukraine should be seen as an added value to NATO: it is fighting and knows how to kill Russians, whereas you do not yet,\u201d<\/em> Bodnar told Polsat News in an interview published on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian soldiers.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/689c9cd4203027030d6d27ae.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/622844-ukraine-military-rigid-leadership\/\">Ukrainian military plagued by rigid Soviet-style leadership \u2013 WSJ<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1129\" data-end=\"1274\">He urged NATO to formally invite Ukraine to join the bloc and claimed that ordinary Ukrainians would welcome NATO bases in <em>\u201cevery village.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1276\" data-end=\"1587\">Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova condemned Bodnar\u2019s remarks and accused Kiev of rejecting a prisoner swap that could have involved around 1,000 POWs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1276\" data-end=\"1587\">Meanwhile, the Russian army has continued to gain ground throughout 2025, as Ukraine struggles to replenish its forces with new conscripts.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1589\" data-end=\"1942\">Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said Moscow has no intention of attacking NATO members unless attacked first. The Kremlin has also stressed that it would not tolerate Western troops on Ukrainian soil, even under the guise of peacekeepers, and has cited Ukraine\u2019s NATO aspirations as one of the root causes of the ongoing conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country could be NATO\u2019s bulwark against Moscow, Kiev\u2019s ambassador to Poland has suggested The Ukrainian military&#8217;s skill at killing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}