{"id":324678,"date":"2025-12-19T13:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324678\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:24:13","slug":"ukraine-war-latest-eu-agrees-e90bn-loan-for-ukraine-as-putin-tells-bbc-the-west-is-making-russia-the-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324678\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war latest: EU agrees \u20ac90bn loan for Ukraine as Putin tells BBC the West is ‘making Russia the enemy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

First section of Putin’s press conference devoted to the warpublished at 10:02 GMT<\/p>\n

10:02 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Laura Gozzi
Europe reporter<\/p>\n

The very first section of Putin’s press conference was devoted to the war in
\nUkraine and what he says are Russia’s military gains in the east of the country. <\/p>\n

He has talked about them at length, focusing on the area of the Donetsk region that Russia is trying to
\ncapture from Ukraine, and trumpeting his army’s alleged victories. “I’m sure
\nthat by the end of this year we will witness new successes by our
\nfighters,” he says. <\/p>\n

It’s true that Russia has made advances on the battlefield –
\nalbeit at great cost of manpower and resources, and at a glacial pace.
\nBut Putin is often hasty – and inaccurate – in celebrating Russia’s victories. It’s part of his attempts to try to persuade the world that Russia’s victory in Ukraine is inevitable.<\/p>\n

As recently as last week, President Zelensky posted a video
\nof himself standing outside the town
\nKupyansk to prove
\nthat the Ukrainian troops were still holding it, despite Moscow’s claim it was captured. <\/p>\n

Putin was asked about this specifically this morning. \u201cHe\u2019s
\nan artist, and a talented one,\u201d Putin says of
\nZelensky. \u201cWe know this from his films from a past time.\u201d (Zelensky was an
\nactor and a comedian before he was elected president of Ukraine in 2019.)<\/p>\n

Putin cast doubts on Zelensky’s video, wondering whether it may have been filmed earlier. “People say [the landmark] looks different now,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First section of Putin’s press conference devoted to the warpublished at 10:02 GMT 10:02 GMT Laura GozziEurope reporter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-324678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}