{"id":51749,"date":"2026-09-30T14:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T11:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=51749"},"modified":"2026-09-30T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:16:15","slug":"oleshky-blockade-the-kremlin-lies-to-evade-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/usa\/oleshky-blockade-the-kremlin-lies-to-evade-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleshky blockade: the kremlin lies to evade responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Against the backdrop of international attention, russia has launched a disinformation campaign aimed at denying responsibility for the humanitarian catastrophe it has caused in the temporarily occupied city of Oleshky and shifting the blame onto Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Key kremlin mouthpieces, including representatives of russia\u2019s ministry of foreign affairs and the occupation administration, have been involved in the information attack. They are systematically spreading false claims about an alleged \u201cdeliberate blockade of the city by Ukrainian drones,\u201d \u201cattacks on civilian transport,\u201d and \u201cmining of roads\u201d by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, seeking to discredit Ukraine\u2019s efforts to rescue civilians.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f In this way, russia seeks to divert the international community\u2019s attention from its own war crimes in the occupied territories of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, it is russian forces that are deliberately blocking evacuation routes, preventing international humanitarian organizations from accessing the area, and effectively holding Oleshky\u2019s civilian population under blockade. The occupiers have destroyed critical infrastructure, deprived people of food and medicine, and used the civilian population as a \u201chuman shield.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against the backdrop of international attention, russia has launched a disinformation campaign aimed at denying responsibility for the humanitarian catastrophe it has caused in the temporarily occupied city of Oleshky and shifting the blame onto Ukraine. \u25ab\ufe0f Key kremlin mouthpieces, including representatives of russia\u2019s ministry of foreign affairs and the occupation administration, have been involved&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51752,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51749\/revisions\/51752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}