{"id":50022,"date":"2015-05-21T20:02:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T12:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50022"},"modified":"2015-05-21T20:02:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T12:02:45","slug":"harper-poroshenko-agree-russia-must-face-sanctions-over-aggression-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/21\/harper-poroshenko-agree-russia-must-face-sanctions-over-aggression-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Harper, Poroshenko agree Russia must face sanctions over aggression in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50112\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50112\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_219115597.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50112\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_219115597.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Stephen Harper with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko  (Drop of Light \/ Shutterstock)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_219115597.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_219115597-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_219115597-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Stephen Harper with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (Drop of Light \/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Prime Minister Stephen Harper has spoken with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko about the ongoing situation in eastern Ukraine and pledged Canada&#8217;s continued support.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister&#8217;s Office says in a release that Poroshenko thanked Canada for the support provided to Ukraine in recent months, and Canada&#8217;s participation in upcoming military training exercises.<\/p>\n<p>Poroshenko told Harper the recent capture of two members of the Russian Special Operations Force in Ukraine is further evidence of direct Russian involvement in the region.<\/p>\n<p>And the statement says both leaders agreed that the Russian aggression in Ukraine must be met with economic sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Canada has all but severed relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, save for a brief handshake between Harper and Putin at last year&#8217;s G20, when the prime minister told the Russian leader flatly to get out of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to imposing a series of sanctions against individuals and entities in both Russia and Ukraine, Canada has provided non-lethal military equipment to the Ukrainian government and provided humanitarian support and assistance to the civilian population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Prime Minister Stephen Harper has spoken with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko about the ongoing situation in eastern Ukraine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":50112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-politics","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}