{"id":35346,"date":"2025-03-07T13:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/first-thing-russia-launches-wave-of-strikes-across-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T13:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:43:17","slug":"first-thing-russia-launches-wave-of-strikes-across-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/first-thing-russia-launches-wave-of-strikes-across-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thing: Russia launches wave of strikes across Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strikes follow European leaders committing to a huge boost in defense spending. Plus, another of Elon Musk\u2019s Starship rockets explodes within minutes of take-off<\/p>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has carried out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/07\/russia-launches-huge-strikes-across-ukraine-as-us-halts-intelligence-sharing\">vast wave of strikes<\/a> across Ukraine, one day after the US stopped sharing intelligence with Kyiv, including advance warnings of attacks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is European support for Ukraine unanimous?<\/strong> No \u2013 Hungary refused to endorse an EU statement that pushed back on Trump\u2019s Russia-friendly negotiating position.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How has China retaliated?<\/strong> It has imposed tariffs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/04\/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china\">10-15% on a range of US agricultural products<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/07\/first-thing-russia-launches-huge-strikes-across-ukraine-as-us-halts-intelligence-sharing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strikes follow European leaders committing to a huge boost in defense spending. Plus, another of Elon Musk\u2019s Starship rockets explodes within minutes of take-off Good morning. Russia has carried out a vast wave of strikes across Ukraine, one day after the US stopped sharing intelligence with Kyiv, including advance warnings of attacks. Is European support &#8230; <a title=\"First Thing: Russia launches wave of strikes across Ukraine\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/first-thing-russia-launches-wave-of-strikes-across-ukraine\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about First Thing: Russia launches wave of strikes across Ukraine\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}