{"id":388057,"date":"2018-12-06T20:22:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T19:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-conducts-extraordinary-flight-over-ukraine-pentagon\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T20:22:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T19:22:01","slug":"presstv-us-conducts-extraordinary-flight-over-ukraine-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-conducts-extraordinary-flight-over-ukraine-pentagon\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US conducts &#8216;extraordinary&#8217; flight over Ukraine: Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US military has announced that it conducted an &#8220;extraordinary\u201d observation flight &#8220;to reaffirm US commitment to Ukraine&#8221; amid Russia-Ukraine tensions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The flight was conducted under the Open Skies treaty on Thursday by a US Air Force OC-135 observation aircraft, the Pentagon said in a statement issued on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon told CNN that the \u201ctiming of this flight is intended to reaffirm US commitment to Ukraine and other partner nations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russia&#8217;s unprovoked attack on Ukrainian naval vessels in the Black Sea near the Kerch Strait is a dangerous escalation in a pattern of increasingly provocative and threatening activity,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States seeks a better relationship with Russia, but this cannot happen while its unlawful and destabilizing actions continue in Ukraine and elsewhere,\u201d according to the Pentagon statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon spokesman said the last such &#8220;extraordinary&#8221; observation flight&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/06\/582177\/US-conducts-extraordinary-observation-flight-over-Ukraine-Pentagon\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military has announced that it conducted an &#8220;extraordinary\u201d observation flight &#8220;to reaffirm US commitment to Ukraine&#8221; amid Russia-Ukraine tensions. The flight was conducted under the Open Skies treaty on Thursday by a US Air Force OC-135 observation aircraft, the Pentagon said in a statement issued on Thursday. Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon told CNN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-388057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}