{"id":50562,"date":"2022-07-18T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50562"},"modified":"2022-07-18T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T04:59:00","slug":"secretary-blinkens-meeting-with-ukraines-first-lady-zelenska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50562","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Blinken\u2019s Meeting With Ukraine\u2019s First Lady Zelenska"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>07\/18\/2022 09:23 PM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Ukraine\u2019s First Lady, Olena Zelenska, in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 The Secretary emphasized the United States\u2019 comprehensive and enduring commitment to support Ukraine\u2019s victory in Russia\u2019s unjust and unprovoked war.\u00a0 The Secretary and First Lady Zelenska spoke about the immense and growing human costs of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion.\u00a0 The Secretary strongly condemned Russia\u2019s brutal attacks, which continue to wound and kill innocent civilians and destroy homes, hospitals, schools, and other civilian infrastructure \u2013 including a July 14 strike on Vinnytsya that killed three children.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Blinken commended First Lady Zelenska\u2019s work to help Ukrainians impacted by the war.\u00a0 He reiterated that the United States will continue to provide assistance to help Ukraine respond to the significant economic and humanitarian challenges it faces, including supporting the First Lady\u2019s mental health initiative for citizens affected by the war .\u00a0 The Secretary reiterated that the United States remains dedicated to helping the people of Ukraine recover and rebuild from the devastation inflicted on them by President Putin\u2019s unjust war.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-4529374431670993980mail_footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>07\/18\/2022 09:23 PM EDT Office of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50563,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50562\/revisions\/50563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}