{"id":693522,"date":"2026-01-13T16:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693522\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T16:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:51:12","slug":"mother-of-us-volunteer-killed-in-ukraine-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693522\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of US volunteer killed in Ukraine speaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 100 <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/united-states-of-america\/t-19065189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans<\/a> have died fighting in <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/russias-war-in-ukraine\/t-60931789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> as volunteers. Among them was Andrew Webber, a decorated US veteran who joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2023 and was killed by a Russian <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/drones\/t-38577815\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drone<\/a>. His mother, Karla, now urges US leaders not to concede Ukrainian territory in peace talks, warning that appeasing <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/vladimir-putin\/t-17449200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> would embolden further aggression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 100 Americans have died fighting in Ukraine as volunteers. Among them was Andrew Webber, a decorated US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-693522","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115888828055136077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693522","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=693522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}