{"id":26219,"date":"2022-06-24T12:34:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T12:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/russian-lawmaker-calls-for-airstrikes-on-us-embassy-in-kyiv-revenge-for-giving-ukraine-long-range-artillery"},"modified":"2022-06-24T12:34:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T12:34:27","slug":"russian-lawmaker-calls-for-airstrikes-on-us-embassy-in-kyiv-revenge-for-giving-ukraine-long-range-artillery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/russian-lawmaker-calls-for-airstrikes-on-us-embassy-in-kyiv-revenge-for-giving-ukraine-long-range-artillery","title":{"rendered":"Russian lawmaker calls for airstrikes on US Embassy in Kyiv, revenge for giving Ukraine long-range artillery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian troops fire with surface-to-surface rockets MLRS towards Russian positions at a front line in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on June 7, 2022. Aris Messinis\/AFP via Getty Images Russian lawmaker Yury Shvytkin on Thursday called for an attack on the US Embassy in Kyiv. He told Lenta.ru that Russia must respond &#8220;harshly&#8221; after new&nbsp; US weaponry arrived in Ukraine. Shvytkin has no power to order a strike, but his words reflect an animosity common in Russia. A Russian lawmaker on Thursday called for airstrikes on the US Embassy in Kyiv after Ukraine received a new batch of American long-range artillery. Yury Shvytkin, the deputy chairman of the Russian parliament&#8217;s defense committee, made the suggestion in an interview with the Russian news outlet Lenta.ru . He said that the US delivery of the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to Ukraine &#8220;emphasizes the step-by-step movement towards a third world war.&#8221; &#8220;One must understand that we must react harshly. In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yury Shvytkin said America&#8217;s gift of long-range weaponry to Ukraine deamanded immediate retaliation against US personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,42,102],"class_list":["post-26219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-military","tag-politics","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}