{"id":49106,"date":"2014-05-29T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T18:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=49106"},"modified":"2014-05-29T09:19:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:19:30","slug":"meanwhile-back-in-the-apparently-forgotten-eastern-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49106","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Back In the Apparently-Forgotten Eastern Ukraine . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . a shooting war seems to have broken out.<\/p>\n<p>This conflict recently appears to have been pretty much ignored by our \u201cwonderful\u201d mainstream media. They seem far more interested in chasing the latest \u201cbright shiny objects\u201d (the VA scandal and the POTUS\u2019\u2019s remarks concerning Syria).<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a brief summary of what\u2019s been happening in the Eastern Ukraine recently:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ukrainian forces have launched a major effort to retake the eastern Ukraine from pro-Russian separatist militias.<\/li>\n<li>Pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukraine have resisted, resulting in the beginning of a <em>de facto<\/em> shooting war.<\/li>\n<li>Pro-Russian separatists have attempted to seize the Donetsk airport, currently held by Ukrainian forces. They were repelled, with significant casualties.<\/li>\n<li>Ukrainian forces have committed heavy artillery and jet aircraft to hostilities around the city of Slovansk.<\/li>\n<li>The self-appointed pro-Russian mayor of Slovansk, Vyacheslav Ponomarev, has stated that a missing 4-man OSCE observer team \u2013 who were sent to an area controlled by pro-Russian forces after being told they were not welcome and should stay out \u2013 is safe, presumably in the custody of pro-Russian forces. He has promised their release, but did not specify when that would occur.<\/li>\n<li>A Ukrainian helicopter carrying 14 \u2013 including a Ukrainian General, Serhiy Kulchyskiy \u2013 was downed by pro-Russian forces, apparently using a MANPADS.\u00a0 There were no survivors.<\/li>\n<li>Ukrainian forces \u2013 including helicopters, armored vehicles, and other combat troops \u2013 have moved towards Donetsk. The Ukrainian government has threatened to retake Donetsk by force if necessary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Russian forces have not yet intervened. It\u2019s an open question at this point of whether or not they will.<\/p>\n<p>Some additional details and background can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2014\/05\/29\/ukraine-rebels-shoot-down-military-helicopter-in-slovyansk\/\">in this article<\/a> from Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, this one&#8217;s getting . . . kinda hot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . a shooting war seems to have broken out. This conflict recently appears to &hellip; <a title=\"Meanwhile, Back In the Apparently-Forgotten Eastern Ukraine . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49106\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meanwhile, Back In the Apparently-Forgotten Eastern Ukraine . . .<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}