{"id":715,"date":"2014-03-11T08:46:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T08:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=715"},"modified":"2014-03-11T08:46:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T08:46:42","slug":"russians-enter-town-north-crimea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"Russians enter town north of Crimea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/image-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-716\" alt=\"image (4)\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/image-4-300x195.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/image-4-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/image-4.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Russians enter town north of Crimea, say Ukrainians<\/p>\n<p>Russian troops seized a military hospital and a missile base in the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea Monday, in the latest show of force in the battle for the country\u2019s disputed future. Pro-Russian militias joined Russian troops in taking over the hospital in Simferopol &#8212; the region\u2019s main administrative city &#8212; herding staff members into a hallway to apparently \u201cmeet the institution\u2019s new directors,\u201d Reuters reported, citing Interfax.<\/p>\n<p>The report said 20 patients at the hospital are gravely ill. Russian soldiers disarmed servicemen at a Ukrainian Army missile base overnight Friday. Ukrainian military spokesman Vladislav Seleznyov told a local TV station that some 200 troops approached the building and threatened to charge it if the Ukrainian soldiers refused to give up their weapons. Crimea&#8217;s parliament has set a March 16 referendum on joining Russia, which has been denounced by Ukraine&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n<p>NATO will starts AWACS reconnaissance flights over Poland and Romania to help monitor the crisis in Ukraine, the alliance said Monday, according to Reuters. NATO ambassadors, acting on a recommendation from NATO&#8217;s top military commander U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, approved the flights Monday, a NATO spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russians enter town north of Crimea, say Ukrainians Russian troops seized a military hospital and a missile base in the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea Monday, in the latest show of force in the battle for the country\u2019s disputed future. Pro-Russian militias joined Russian troops in taking over the hospital in Simferopol &#8212; the region\u2019s main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}