{"id":28892,"date":"2022-12-02T06:13:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T06:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=28892"},"modified":"2022-12-02T06:13:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T06:13:33","slug":"u-s-france-present-united-front-to-hold-russia-to-account-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=28892","title":{"rendered":"U.S., France present united front to hold Russia to account on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON\/KHERSON, Ukraine, Dec 2  &#8211; The presidents of the United States and France said they would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/state-visit-biden-macron-face-dispute-over-american-subsidies-2022-12-01\/\">hold Russia to account<\/a> for its actions in Ukraine and the European Union reached tentative agreement on an oil price cap to squeeze Moscow&#8217;s export earnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Western powers are trying to rally support for Ukraine, which is reeling from missile and drone attacks targeting power supply, water and heat in its cities just as winter has set in nine months into Russia&#8217;s invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia meanwhile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/russias-lavrov-says-us-nato-are-direct-participants-ukraine-war-2022-12-01\/\">accused the United States and NATO<\/a> of playing a direct and dangerous role in the war and said Washington had turned Kyiv into an existential threat for Moscow which it could not ignore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a bid to reduce the money available for Moscow&#8217;s war effort, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/eu-agrees-60-barrel-price-cap-russian-seaborne-oil-eu-diplomat-2022-12-01\/\">European Union tentatively agreed<\/a> on Thursday on a $60 a barrel price cap on Russian seaborne oil, according to diplomats. The measure would need to be approved by all EU governments in a written procedure by Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron said in a joint statement after Oval Office talks on Thursday that they were committed to holding Russia to account &#8220;for widely documented atrocities and war crimes, committed both by its regular armed forces and by its proxies&#8221; in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden said Washington and Paris &#8220;are facing down Vladimir Putin&#8217;s grasping ambition for conquest&#8221; and &#8220;defending the democratic values and universal human rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: WASHINGTON\/KHERSON, Ukraine, Dec 2 &#8211; The presidents of the United States and France said they would hold Russia to account for its actions in Ukraine and the European Union reached tentative agreement on an oil price cap to squeeze Moscow&#8217;s export earnings. Western powers are trying to rally support for Ukraine, which is reeling from missile and drone attacks targeting power supply, water and heat in its cities just as winter has set in nine months into Russia&#8217;s invasion. Russia meanwhile accused the United States and NATO of playing a direct and dangerous role in the war and said&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28894,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28892\/revisions\/28894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}