{"id":4958,"date":"2015-01-28T08:10:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T13:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4958"},"modified":"2015-01-28T08:10:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T13:10:27","slug":"kiev-used-barrier-squads-to-prevent-troops-from-retreating-e-ukraine-militia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4958","title":{"rendered":"Kiev used barrier squads to prevent troops from retreating \u2013 E. Ukraine militia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/226831-ukraine-barrier-troops-donetsk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kiev used barrier squads to prevent troops from retreating \u2013 E. Ukraine militia<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The Ukrainian military employed barrier troops who fired at their fellow servicemen in order to prevent their retreat during a night battle in the country&#8217;s southeast, the Defense Ministry of the Donetsk People\u2019s Republic (DPR) said.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Ukrainian troops are demoralized, which is proven by an unprecedented incident that occurred last night,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0DPR Defense Ministry spokesman Eduard Basurin said, as quoted by Donetsk News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>An injured Ukrainian soldier who surrendered to the militias said during questioning that\u00a0<em>\u201canti-retreat units from territorial defense battalions were used against the Ukrainian troops,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Basurin said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the spokesman, 70 Ukrainian troops have surrendered to the rebels since January 9, with 11 of them capitulating in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry decided to accelerate the graduation of students from the country&#8217;s military schools and universities in order to deploy them to the conflict zone in the Donetsk and Lugansk Regions, TASS reported.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt is done to make up for the huge combat losses of officers\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in the fighting in the southeast and the mass evasion of mobilization by reserve officers of the Ukrainian army, representative parent associations of Ukrainian military schools said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiev used barrier squads to prevent troops from retreating \u2013 E. Ukraine militia The Ukrainian military employed barrier troops who fired at their fellow servicemen in order to prevent their retreat during a night battle in the country&#8217;s southeast, the Defense Ministry of the Donetsk People\u2019s Republic (DPR) said. &#8220;Ukrainian troops are demoralized, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[919,2987,2986,1610,2907,821],"class_list":["post-4958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-donetsk","tag-donetsk-peoples-republic","tag-dpr","tag-kiev","tag-lugansk","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4959,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions\/4959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}