{"id":2412,"date":"2015-05-19T22:54:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T22:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2015-05-19T22:54:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T22:54:45","slug":"ukraine-crisis-four-ukrainian-soldiers-killed-in-luhansk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/ukraine-crisis-four-ukrainian-soldiers-killed-in-luhansk\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Crisis: Four Ukrainian soldiers killed in Luhansk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Four Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and two more injured in fighting near the villages of Katerinovka and Stakhanovets on the outskirts of Luhansk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAccording to preliminary data, four Ukrainian soldiers were killed, another two are injured (one severely),\u201d\u00a0said a statement by the Luhansk regional military-civilian administration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hennadiy Moskal, the head\u00a0of the regional administration, accused pro-Russia forces of breaking the ceasefire by firing mortars and cannons at Ukrainian government positions,\u00a0which was followed up by close combat between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier the military press center had reported a two-hour fight near Katerinovka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Luhansk and Donetsk are the two mainly Russian-speaking regions in eastern Ukraine, which have witnessed fighting between pro-Moscow forces and the Ukrainian army since Kiev launched its military offensive in spring 2014.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 565px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20150519\/920f7113-f026-4efa-8ea2-49bc4d0895fe.jpg?resize=555%2C313\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/em> <em>Pro-Russia forces help an elderly man cross a damaged bridge near the village of Stanytsia Luhanska\u00a0in eastern Ukraine, March 23, 2015. (\u00a9 AFP)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the February ceasefire agreement of Minsk, both sides have been accusing one another of violating the truce.\u00a0The agreement introduced measures such as a ceasefire, which commenced on February 15, the pullout of heavy weapons, and constitutional reform in Ukraine by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the peace deal came into effect much of the fighting in Ukraine\u2019s volatile provinces has simmered down, but the truce has failed to bring the battle to a complete halt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced\u00a0on May 8 that nearly 7,000 civilians have lost their lives in the year-long conflict\u00a0in eastern Ukraine.\u00a0He added that more than 1,000 people were also unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">XLS\/HSN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and two more injured in fighting near the villages of Katerinovka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[62,1],"tags":[75,6,24,5,49,20,22,128],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-conflict","tag-defense","tag-eu","tag-military","tag-peace","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ukraine-Soldiers.jpg?fit=670%2C359&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-CU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2413,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}