{"id":23356,"date":"2018-11-27T01:22:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T01:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23356"},"modified":"2018-11-27T01:22:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T01:22:18","slug":"ukraine-approves-martial-law-as-russia-tensions-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23356","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine approves martial law as Russia tensions escalate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Moscow (CNN)<\/cite>Ukrainian lawmakers on Monday voted to introduce martial law in the border areas with Russia after it <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2018\/11\/25\/europe\/russia-ukraine-kerch-strait-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">seized three Ukrainian navy ships<\/a> and detained 24 sailors in a key waterway that holds strategic importance for both countries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">It&#8217;s the first time Ukraine has enacted martial law since the conflict with Russia began in 2014, indicating a major escalation in tensions between the two former Soviet Republics.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The law &#8212; which could give the government extraordinary powers over civil society &#8212; will start on November 28 and will last 30 days. In Parliament, 276 members voted for the motion.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow (CNN)Ukrainian lawmakers on Monday voted to introduce martial law in the border areas with Russia after it seized three Ukrainian navy ships and detained 24 sailors in a key waterway that holds strategic importance for both countries.It&#8217;s the first time Ukraine has enacted martial law since the conflict with Russia began in 2014, indicating&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}