{"id":2416,"date":"2015-05-20T20:46:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T20:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2017-01-10T16:31:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:31:30","slug":"russia-threatens-ukraine-over-nato-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/russia-threatens-ukraine-over-nato-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia threatens Ukraine over NATO missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia has threatened to adopt countermeasures if NATO deploys its ballistic missile system in Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf the point at issue is Ukraine\u2019s wish to host US missile defense components, of course this can be perceived only negatively, because that would pose a threat to Russia\u2019s security,\u201d Russian presidential spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will entail the need for taking retaliatory measures that would ensure Russia\u2019s security,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Russia opposes NATO\u2019s missile program in Eastern Europe and sees the deployment as a threat to itself.<\/p>\n

The head of Ukraine’s National Security Council, Oleksandr Turchynov, said on Wednesday that Kiev is open to the stationing of NATO’s ballistic missile system in its territory, adding that the missile system would help Ukraine ward off potential Russian attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not rule out that to defend ourselves from [Russia\u2019s] nuclear threat, we will have to hold consultations on deploying missile defense system components in Ukrainian territory,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Wednesday that his country is fighting a “real war” against Russia.<\/p>\n

He referred to the ongoing clashes in the eastern part of Ukraine and said, \u201cThis is not a fight with Russian-backed separatists; this is a real war with Russia.”<\/p>\n

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The government in Kiev and its Western allies accuse Moscow of supporting pro-Russia forces in eastern Ukraine. Russia denies the allegation.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s mainly Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Lugansk in the east have been hit by deadly clashes between pro-Russia forces and the Ukrainian army since Kiev launched military operations to crush the pro-Russians in mid-April 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russia has threatened to adopt countermeasures if NATO deploys its ballistic missile system in Ukraine. \u201cIf the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[6,24,5,31,59,20,7,22,63],"class_list":["post-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-defense","tag-eu","tag-military","tag-missile","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-u-s","tag-ukraine","tag-weapons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Missiles.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-CY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions\/2425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}