{"id":3647,"date":"2022-04-02T06:20:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T06:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/mayor-says-ukrainian-forces-have-retaken-kyiv-suburb-of-irpin-the-hill\/"},"modified":"2022-04-02T06:20:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T06:20:08","slug":"mayor-says-ukrainian-forces-have-retaken-kyiv-suburb-of-irpin-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/04\/02\/mayor-says-ukrainian-forces-have-retaken-kyiv-suburb-of-irpin-the-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor says Ukrainian forces have retaken Kyiv suburb of Irpin &#8211; The Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor of Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv, announced Monday that Ukrainian forces had taken back control of the&nbsp;city after fierce fighting with Russian troops.&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cWe have good news today \u2014 Irpin has been liberated,\u201d Mayor Oleksandr Markushyn said in a video post on Telegram, according to multiple outlets. \u201cWe understand that there will be more attacks on our town and we will defend it courageously.\u201d&nbsp;<br \/>Markushyn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/europe\/live-news\/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-28-22\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told CNN on Monday that Irpin<\/a> was freed the night prior and that forces still need to completely clear the town.&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cThere are wounded Russian soldiers. They are offering to surrender or they will be destroyed. Irpin is a staging area for an attack. We will [next] liberate Bucha, Vorzel and Hostomel,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<br \/>Asked later on Monday about the mayor&#8217;s assertion, a senior U.S. defense official could not&nbsp;independently verify that Irpin was reclaimed.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cWe&#8217;ve seen the mayor&#8217;s comments. &#8230; [We\u2019ve] talked about there being, you know, active fighting and the Ukrainians efforts to take it back, but we&#8217;re not in a position now where we can independently verify that they&#8217;ve done so,\u201d the official said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>The official on Friday noted that there was \u201cheavy fighting\u201d in the city, which sits northwest of Kyiv, with Ukrainian forces \u201ctrying hard to dislodge the Russians\u201d from the area.<br \/> \t\tThe Hill has removed its comment section, as there are many other forums for readers to participate in the conversation. We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter.\t<br \/>THE HILL 1625 K STREET, NW SUITE 900 WASHINGTON DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 TEL | 202-628-8503 FAX<br \/>\u00a9 1998 &#8211; 2022 Nexstar Inc. | All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/600024-mayor-says-ukrainian-forces-have-retaken-kyiv-suburb-of-irpin\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor of Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv, announced Monday that Ukrainian forces had taken back control of the&nbsp;city after fierce fighting with Russian troops.&nbsp;\u201cWe have good news today \u2014 Irpin has been liberated,\u201d Mayor Oleksandr Markushyn said in a video post on Telegram, according to multiple outlets. \u201cWe understand that there will be more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}