{"id":439942,"date":"2022-03-17T07:33:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T06:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=439942"},"modified":"2022-03-17T07:43:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T06:43:03","slug":"war-ukrainian-president-zelensky-speaks-on-surrendering-to-russian-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=439942","title":{"rendered":"War: Ukrainian President Zelensky speaks on surrendering to Russian forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky has rubbished reports suggesting he was willing to surrender to the Russian forces.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky said the suggestions are a \u201cchildish provocation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A banner had appeared on a Ukrainian newscast saying Zelensky was calling on his people to lay down their weapons, CNN reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can only ask the Russian military to give up arms and return home,\u201d Zelensky said in a video statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are home already, we are defending our land, our children. We are not going to give up any arms until our victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile President Biden announced $800 million in additional security assistance to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Biden made the announcement during remarks from the White House on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>This brings the total to $1 billion in aid announced in just last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky has rubbished reports suggesting he was willing to surrender to the Russian forces. Zelensky said the suggestions are a \u201cchildish provocation.\u201d A banner had appeared on a Ukrainian newscast saying Zelensky was calling on his people to lay down their weapons, CNN reports. \u201cI can only ask the Russian military to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":439948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[4805,13205,17702],"class_list":["post-439942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-zelenskyy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/439948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}