{"id":19772,"date":"2020-06-28T03:58:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/27\/russia-offered-bounty-to-kill-uk-soldiers"},"modified":"2020-06-28T03:58:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:58:04","slug":"russia-offered-bounty-to-kill-uk-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19772","title":{"rendered":"Russia offered bounty to kill UK soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow accused of trying to give money to the Taliban as part of its campaign to destabilise America and its allies<\/p>\n<p>The Russian intelligence unit behind the attempted murder in Salisbury of the former double agent Sergei Skripal secretly offered to pay Taliban-linked fighters to kill British and American soldiers in Afghanistan, according to US reports.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation piles pressure on the UK to take robust action against the Kremlin amid continuing anger over the government\u2019s delay in publishing a key report on Russian attempts to destabilise the UK.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/27\/russia-offered-bounty-to-kill-uk-soldiers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow accused of trying to give money to the Taliban as part of its campaign to destabilise America and its alliesThe Russian intelligence unit behind the attempted murder in Salisbury of the former double agent Sergei Skripal secretly offered to pay &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,531,415,4,61,44,52,47,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-boris-johnson","category-donald-trump","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19773,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19772\/revisions\/19773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}