{"id":197229,"date":"2025-06-19T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/197229\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:24:09","slug":"ukraine-looks-abroad-to-boost-its-manpower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/197229\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine looks abroad to boost its manpower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">THE NEWEST recruits will leave at dawn to join Ukrainian brigades on the southern front. Some of them are excited. Others, deadly focused. \u201cInfante\u201d, a 38-year old veteran from near Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, does not say much at all. The whites of his eyes, which flicker as they scour the room for threats, speak their own language. J-C, a 60-year-old training co-ordinator from Brazil, looks on approvingly. He has seen it all\u2014from East Timor to Bakhmut, for which he proudly wears a medal. \u201cFew words,\u201d he says. \u201cBut these are the guys who survive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE NEWEST recruits will leave at dawn to join Ukrainian brigades on the southern front. Some of them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657,11409,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-197229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine","11":"tag-ukraine-at-war","12":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114710254069944599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}