{"id":63171,"date":"2022-02-25T17:06:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T15:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=63171"},"modified":"2022-02-25T17:06:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T15:06:50","slug":"murat-sofuoglu-russia-invades-ukraine-all-the-talking-points-on-putin-making-the-first-move-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/murat-sofuoglu-russia-invades-ukraine-all-the-talking-points-on-putin-making-the-first-move-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Murat Sofuoglu: Russia invades Ukraine \u2013 all the talking points on Putin making the first move"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"By Zahid Jadwat
\n25:02:2022
\n<\/strong>As the situation in the former Soviet nation of Ukraine deteriorates, Russian troops are advancing towards the capital Kyiv. Experts suggest Russia plans to overthrow President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s government and replace it with one favourable to Moscow.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Speaking in an interview with Radio Islam, a researcher at TRT World, Murat Sofuo\u011flu, said the Russian army is applying pressure on the Ukrainian military and could soon grip the capital.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>He also warned that Russia\u2019s advances in the coastal cities of Mariupol and Odessa threaten to block Ukraine\u2019s access to the Black Sea.<\/p>\n

“If the war goes like this, the Russians will capture Kyiv because they\u2019re so close to the capital. If they
\ncapture Mariupol and Odessa; they\u2019re pretty much going to cut Ukrainian access to the Black Sea which
\nis crucial for the country\u2019s imports and exports.”<\/p>\n

The Ukraine economy would be severely impacted if the country\u2019s access to the Black Sea is blocked. As
\nmuch as 70% of Ukraine’s exports and imports go by sea, and the Odessa region’s ports handle three
\nquarters of that.<\/p>\n

Since the invasion of Ukraine began in the early hours of Thursday morning, explosions have been heard
\nin major cities as air, sea and land attacks were launched. Officials say 137 civilians and military
\npersonnel have been killed so far.<\/p>\n

[LISTEN] to the podcast here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Zahid Jadwat 25:02:2022 As the situation in the former Soviet nation of Ukraine deteriorates, Russian troops are advancing towards the capital Kyiv. Experts suggest Russia plans to overthrow President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s government and replace it with one favourable to Moscow. Speaking in an interview with Radio Islam, a researcher at TRT World, Murat Sofuo\u011flu, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,31,4997],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-podcasts","category-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/RU.jpg?fit=275%2C183&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-gqT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 05:50:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}