{"id":99079,"date":"2014-07-23T20:45:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T16:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=99079"},"modified":"2014-07-23T20:45:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T16:45:54","slug":"two-ukrainian-jets-shot-down-defense-ministry-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=99079","title":{"rendered":"Two Ukrainian Jets Shot Down, Defense Ministry Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/fighter_jets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-99077\" alt=\"\u057c\u0561\u0566\u0574\u0561\u056f\u0561\u0576 \u056b\u0576\u0584\u0576\u0561\u0569\u056b\u057c\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/fighter_jets.jpg\" width=\"992\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/fighter_jets.jpg 992w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/fighter_jets-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/fighter_jets-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/topics\/news\/ukraine.htm\">Ukrainian<\/a> military jets were shot down in the Donetsk region of the country today, the Ukrainian defense ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The planes were identified as Sukhoi-25 fighter jets. The fate of the planes&#8217; pilots was not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It happened at 12:30 p.m. Ukraine time (5:30 a.m. ET). Defense ministry did not state what kind of weapon was used to down the jets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Sukhoi-25 are single seat combat fighter jets. That same type of jet was shot down by a missile July 16.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before word of today&#8217;s shoot-down came, the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt told ABC News that he&#8217;s very concerned Russia has not stopped the flow of heavy weapons into eastern Ukraine where ethnic Russians are trying to break away from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fighting is currently taking place on the outskirts of Donetsk, one of the separatists last strongholds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Two Ukrainian military jets were shot down in the Donetsk region of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":99077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,149,137],"tags":[9740,12728,13843,12727],"class_list":["post-99079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-russia","category-world","tag-donetsk","tag-geoffrey-pyatt","tag-russia","tag-ukrainian-jets","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99079","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=99079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}