{"id":134955,"date":"2022-09-20T14:09:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T18:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=134955"},"modified":"2022-09-20T14:09:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T18:09:50","slug":"putin-ally-says-he-favours-formally-incorporating-ukrainian-regions-into-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=134955","title":{"rendered":"Putin ally says he favours formally incorporating Ukrainian regions into Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>READ HERE: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/ukraine-marches-farther-into-liberated-lands-separatist-calls-urgent-referendum-2022-09-19\/\">LONDON\/KYIV, Sept 20 (Reuters) &#8211; One of Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s top allies said on Tuesday he favoured holding referendums in two eastern Ukrainian regions in order to formally make them part of Russia, a move that would seriously escalate Moscow&#8217;s confrontation with the West.<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}