{"id":17057,"date":"2022-07-27T16:28:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T12:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/?p=17057"},"modified":"2022-08-05T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T09:15:24","slug":"2-americans-dead-in-eastern-ukraine-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/2-americans-dead-in-eastern-ukraine-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Americans dead in eastern Ukraine: Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The State Department confirmed the two deaths.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two Americans thought to have been fighting for Ukraine have died in the eastern reach of the country, according to officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We can confirm the recent deaths of two U.S. citizens in the Donbas region of Ukraine,&#8221; a State Department spokesperson said. &#8220;We are in touch with the families and providing all possible consular assistance.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They added: &#8220;Out of respect to the families during this difficult time, we have nothing further.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the Americans killed was Luke Lucyszyn, his mother, Kathy Lucyszyn, confirmed to ABC News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A former U.S. soldier who served with the two Americans told &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221; they faced overwhelming Russian firepower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There was artillery basically 24-7,&#8221; the soldier said. &#8220;They could shoot at us but we couldn&#8217;t even see them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department confirmed the two deaths. Two Americans thought to have been fighting for Ukraine have died in the eastern reach of the country, according to officials. &#8220;We can confirm the recent deaths of two U.S. citizens in the Donbas region of Ukraine,&#8221; a State Department spokesperson said. &#8220;We are in touch with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17059,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17057\/revisions\/17059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}