{"id":25100,"date":"2022-08-24T14:05:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T14:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=25100"},"modified":"2022-08-24T14:05:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T14:05:40","slug":"johnson-in-ukraine-to-mark-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/08\/24\/johnson-in-ukraine-to-mark-independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson in Ukraine to mark Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson has visited President Zelensky in Kyiv on Ukraine\u2019s Independence Day.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing next to his Ukrainian counterpart, Mr Johnson claimed unity was \u201cgrowing\u201d among Western countries in relation to continued military support, despite reports European support could \u201cdry up\u201d because of the cost-of-living crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile people are paying energy bills, people in Ukraine are paying with blood,\u201d said Mr Johnson, who added that British households would \u201chave to endure the cost-of-living crisis\u201d in order to counter Russia\u2019s \u201cinevitable manipulation of energy prices\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Prime Minister has arrived in Kyiv on Ukraine\u2019s 31st Independence Day. <\/p>\n<p>His message: Ukraine can and will win this war. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9DKZYs9QRe\">pic.twitter.com\/9DKZYs9QRe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/10DowningStreet\/status\/1562431994847719424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hardships are real, but we need to fix the underlying issue which is dependence on Russian gas,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by the BBC just how independent his country was, President Zelensky said \u201cUkraine is as independent as possible&#8221;, and stressed that the unity inside the country mustn\u2019t be lost.<\/p>\n<p>President Zelensky then unveiled a plaque for the British prime minister on his new \u201calley of bravery\u201d outside the Ukrainian parliament.<\/p>\n<p>With a heavy security presence, the pair then went for a walk through the centre of Kyiv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson has visited President Zelensky in Kyiv on Ukraine\u2019s Independence Day. Appearing next to his Ukrainian counterpart, Mr Johnson claimed unity was \u201cgrowing\u201d among Western countries in relation to continued military support, despite reports European support could \u201cdry up\u201d because of the cost-of-living crisis. \u201cWhile people are paying energy bills, people in Ukraine are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[2735,5090,157,13071,5268,8440,5494,9505,5491,6663,8601,7377,5342,10634,5572,1198,3805,6089,10390,3174,3457,5217,5655,5350,5180,5555,11957,594,2472],"class_list":["post-25100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-bbc","tag-boris","tag-boris-johnson","tag-bravery","tag-british","tag-crisis","tag-energy","tag-european","tag-gas","tag-households","tag-independence","tag-independence-day","tag-kyiv","tag-lost","tag-military","tag-parliament","tag-president","tag-president-zelensky","tag-prices","tag-prime-minister","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-security","tag-twitter","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian","tag-unity","tag-who","tag-zelensky"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}