{"id":34624,"date":"2023-05-04T17:29:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T17:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/zelenskiy-meets-wounded-ukrainian\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T17:38:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T17:38:28","slug":"zelenskiy-meets-wounded-ukrainian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/zelenskiy-meets-wounded-ukrainian\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskiy meets wounded Ukrainian soldiers in Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Bart H. Meijer<\/p>\n<p>SOESTERBERG, Netherlands (Reuters) &#8211;     Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy handed out watches to wounded Ukrainian soldiers at a Dutch military base on Thursday as part of his surprise visit to the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskiy had earlier met the king and prime minister and called for a new international tribunal to be set up in The Hague to try Russia&#8217;s leadership for the crime of aggression over its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>In his visit to the military base in Soesterberg, near Utrecht, the president met a handful of soldiers who are undergoing rehabilitation treatment in the Netherlands after suffering severe wounds in fighting against Russian forces. <\/p>\n<p>He also met dozens of others who are being trained by the Dutch military, including in learning to use Patriot missile defense systems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here we see what help is,&#8221; Zelenskiy said at the base, where weapons and military equipment destined for use in the war are being prepared for dispatch. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Help with weapons that protect lives, with treating soldiers, teaching them the military skills needed and with investigating Russian war crimes,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskiy viewed equipment including armoured howitzers, military cranes and mobile hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch Defence minister Kajsa Ollongren said the Netherlands will provide the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is investigating alleged war crimes in Ukraine, with a mobile laboratory for forensic research. <\/p>\n<p>It is &#8220;crucial for bringing those responsible to justice,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Bart Meijer, Writing by Toby Sterling, Editing by Alexandra Hudson)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/zelenskiy-meets-wounded-ukrainian\/ukraines-president-zelenskiy-visits-netherlands-6\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ430RG-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ430RG-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bart H. Meijer SOESTERBERG, Netherlands (Reuters) &#8211; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy handed out watches to wounded Ukrainian soldiers at a Dutch military base on Thursday as part of his surprise visit to the Netherlands. Zelenskiy had earlier met the king and prime minister and called for a new international tribunal to be set up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":34625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ430RG-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34626,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34624\/revisions\/34626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}