{"id":17119,"date":"2025-12-25T15:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/zelensky-in-christmas-message-says-most-ukrainians-may-wish-for-putin-to-perish\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T15:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:20:14","slug":"zelensky-in-christmas-message-says-most-ukrainians-may-wish-for-putin-to-perish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/zelensky-in-christmas-message-says-most-ukrainians-may-wish-for-putin-to-perish\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky, in Christmas message, says most Ukrainians may wish for Putin &#8216;to perish&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged in his Christmas Eve message that many Ukrainians want to see Russian President Vladimir Putin dead. &#8220;&#8216;May he perish,&#8217; each of us may think to ourselves,&#8221; Zelensky said in the broadcast. &#8220;But when we turn to God, of course, we ask for something greater.&#8221; &#8220;We ask for peace for Ukraine&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5663011-zelensky-christmas-message-putin-russia-ukraine\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged in his Christmas Eve message that many Ukrainians want to see Russian President Vladimir Putin dead. &#8220;&#8216;May he perish,&#8217; each of us may think to ourselves,&#8221; Zelensky said in the broadcast. &#8220;But when we turn to God, of course, we ask for something greater.&#8221; &#8220;We ask for peace for Ukraine&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}