{"id":947331,"date":"2023-01-06T06:59:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T06:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=270723"},"modified":"2023-01-06T07:00:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T07:00:13","slug":"putins-brief-ceasefire-is-a-prelude-to-further-escalation-of-this-bitter-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/06\/putins-brief-ceasefire-is-a-prelude-to-further-escalation-of-this-bitter-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin\u2019s Brief Ceasefire is a Prelude to Further Escalation of this Bitter War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Vladimir Putin ordered his army in Ukraine to observe a 36-hour ceasefire for the Russian Orthodox Christmas holiday this weekend, a move which will raise hopes of a longer-term end to the fighting. It is the first such truce covering the whole battlefield since the Russian invasion 11 months ago and serves Russian interests more than those of Ukraine. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/06\/putins-brief-ceasefire-is-a-prelude-to-further-escalation-of-this-bitter-war\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/06\/putins-brief-ceasefire-is-a-prelude-to-further-escalation-of-this-bitter-war\/\">Putin\u2019s Brief Ceasefire is a Prelude to Further Escalation of this Bitter War<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/06\/putins-brief-ceasefire-is-a-prelude-to-further-escalation-of-this-bitter-war\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Vladimir Putin ordered his army in Ukraine to observe a 36-hour ceasefire for the Russian Orthodox Christmas holiday this weekend, a move which will raise hopes of a longer-term end to the fighting. It is the first such truce covering the who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947782,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947331\/revisions\/947782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}