{"id":91526,"date":"2014-06-13T18:41:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T14:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=91526"},"modified":"2014-06-13T18:41:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T14:41:18","slug":"ukrainian-official-russian-tanks-have-entered-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=91526","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian official: Russian tanks have entered the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ukraine-after-election.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-91522\" alt=\"\u0578\u0582\u056f\u0580\u0561\u056b\u0576\u0561\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ukraine-after-election.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ukraine-after-election.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ukraine-after-election-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ukraine-after-election-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Three Russian tanks and other military vehicles crossed the border into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/02\/28\/world\/europe\/ukraine-fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine<\/a> on Thursday, prompting a skirmish between Ukrainian and Russian forces, acting Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Foreign Ministry<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-27815441#TWEET1155517\" target=\"_blank\"> told the BBC<\/a> that the claim was &#8220;another fake piece of information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Avakov, tanks crossed the border at a checkpoint controlled by pro-Russian separatists in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine. Armored vehicles and artillery were part of the columns, Avakov said, citing Ukrainian intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the tanks split off and headed in the direction of Gorlovka, also known as Horlivka, and were attacked by Ukrainian military forces, Avakov said.<\/p>\n<p>Part of that column was destroyed, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Thursday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin &#8220;held a substantial and long phone conversation,&#8221; the Ukrainian President&#8217;s media office said, but it was unclear if that conversation occurred before or after the reported tank incursion.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders discussed Poroshenko&#8217;s peace plan to resolve the situation in the east of Ukraine, the media office said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Russian tanks and other military vehicles crossed the border into Ukraine on Thursday, prompting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":91522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,224,149,137],"tags":[11192,11191],"class_list":["post-91526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-russia","category-world","tag-russian-tank","tag-ukrainia","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}