{"id":229059,"date":"2022-12-25T13:05:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T11:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=229059"},"modified":"2022-12-25T13:06:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T11:06:00","slug":"explaining-ukraine-171","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/explaining-ukraine-171","title":{"rendered":"Russia shells Kherson on Christmas &#8211; Weekly, 18-24 Dec, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Russia shelled the center of Kherson on Dec 24th, on Chrismas eve, killing at least 10 and wounding over 50 people. Putin and Lukashenka are preparing a new attempt to attack Kyiv. Zelensky visited the frontline in Bakhmut, and made the first (since Feb 24) trip abroad to Washington and Warsaw. This is an overview of key events and trends in and around Ukraine on December 18-24th, 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hosts: Volodymyr Yermolenko, Ukrainian philosopher and journalist, chief editor of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ukraineworld.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UkraineWorld.org<\/a>, and Tetyana Ogarkova, Ukrainian scholar and journalist, in charge of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/internationaloutreach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">international outreach<\/a>&nbsp;at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ukraine Crisis Media Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"lazyload\"  title=\"Russia shells Kherson on Christmas - Weekly, 18-24 Dec, 2022 | Ep. 171 by UkraineWorld\" width=\"662\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" data-src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1409701552&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=993&#038;maxwidth=662\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia shelled the center of Kherson on Dec 24th, on Chrismas eve, killing at least 10 and wounding over 50 people. Putin and Lukashenka are preparing a new attempt to attack Kyiv. Zelensky visited the frontline in Bakhmut, and made the first (since Feb 24) trip abroad to Washington and Warsaw. This is an overview [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/explaining-ukraine-171\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":202874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":[],"categories":[611,748],"tags":[32702,32790,32797,6910,32733,32727,7265,1124,32709],"section":[743,708],"form":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Russia shells Kherson on Christmas - Weekly, 18-24 Dec, 2022 | UACRISIS.ORG<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Explaining Ukraine: Russia shells Kherson on Christmas - Weekly, 18-24 Dec, 2022 | Uacrisis.org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/explaining-ukraine-171\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Russia shells Kherson on Christmas - 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