{"id":6801,"date":"2021-04-02T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6801"},"modified":"2021-04-03T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T11:22:21","slug":"russia-warns-us-nato-against-deploying-troops-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/russia-warns-us-nato-against-deploying-troops-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia warns US, NATO against deploying troops to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NATO and Ukraine earlier warned Russia against building up troops<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russia has warned the U.S. and NATO against sending troops to Ukraine after Kiev accused Moscow of building up troops on its border.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u00a0said that any deployment of NATO troops to Ukraine would lead to further tensions in the region. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Russia would be forced to take extra measures to ensure its own security if the US sent troops to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no doubt such a scenario would lead to a further increase in tensions close to Russia&#8217;s borders. Of course, this would call for additional measures from the Russian side to ensure its security,\u201d Peskov said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of massing troops on the border and said 20 Ukrainian servicemen had been killed this year.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after NATO voiced concern over the Russian military build-up near eastern Ukraine. Earlier this week, NATO planes were scrambled 10 times in a six-hour period to respond to an &#8220;unusual peak&#8221; of Russian flights in several areas in the North Atlantic, North Sea, Baltic and the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biden affirms US &#8216;support for Ukraine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Joe Biden has expressed strong support for Ukraine in a call with the country&#8217;s president. A White House readout said Biden \u201creaffirmed the United States\u2019 unwavering support for Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russia\u2019s ongoing aggression in the Donbas and Crimea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Taran, and \u201ccondemned recent escalations of Russian aggressive and provocative actions in eastern Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO and Ukraine earlier warned Russia against building up troops Russia has warned the U.S. and NATO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6802,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1,125],"tags":[6,357,5,59,20,7,22],"class_list":["post-6801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-united-states","tag-defense","tag-europe","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-u-s","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Russian-troop.jpeg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1LH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801","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=6801"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6810,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions\/6810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}