{"id":45674,"date":"2014-09-03T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wash-_post_ukraine_announces_cease-fire_in_east_major_questions_remain\/"},"modified":"2014-09-03T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T15:00:34","slug":"wash-_post_ukraine_announces_cease-fire_in_east_major_questions_remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45674","title":{"rendered":"(Wash. Post) Ukraine announces cease-fire in east; major questions remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday announced a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, although major questions remained about whether it would be implemented.<\/p>\n<p>The surprise decision comes as Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine have made rapid strides to retake territory in the last week, after apparently receiving an infusion of support from Russia, which the Kremlin denies.<\/p>\n<p>Poroshenko\u2019s office announced the cease-fire in the eastern Donets Basin region, also known as Donbas, after a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/kremlin-says-putin-and-poroshenko-share-views-on-how-to-end-crisis-in-ukraine\/2014\/09\/03\/c9958dac-8ab0-4c7c-a920-c378270e4fa8_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday announced a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, although major questions remained about whether it would be implemented. The surprise decision comes as Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine have made rapid strides to retake territory in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45674\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,143,168,200,144,151,479,34,469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-russia","category-theology","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}