{"id":29894,"date":"2023-01-27T03:38:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T03:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=29894"},"modified":"2023-01-27T03:38:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T03:38:38","slug":"russia-nato-war-involvement-growing-with-arms-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=29894","title":{"rendered":"Russia: NATO war involvement \u2018growing\u2019 with arms to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Al Jazeera:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia says the delivery of NATO battle tanks to Ukraine is evidence of \u201cdirect and growing\u201d US and European involvement in the war, with one analyst suggesting supplying nations could become potential targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The comments come after the United States and Germany on Wednesday said they would arm Ukraine with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/1\/25\/which-countries-are-supplying-tanks-to-ukraine\">dozens of heavy tanks<\/a> in its fight against Russian forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are constant statements from European capitals and Washington that the sending of various weapons systems to Ukraine, including tanks, in no way signifies the involvement of these countries or the alliance in hostilities in Ukraine,\u201d Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe categorically disagree with this and, in Moscow, everything the alliance and the capitals I mentioned are doing is seen as direct involvement in the conflict. We see that this is growing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kyiv has been seeking hundreds of modern tanks to give its troops the firepower to break Russian defensive lines and reclaim occupied territory in Ukraine\u2019s south and east. Ukraine and Russia have been relying primarily on Soviet-era T-72 tanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2023\/1\/26\/russia-ukraine-live-news-air-raid-alert-across-country\">launched the war by invading Ukraine<\/a> on February 24 last year, has increasingly portrayed the conflict as a confrontation with NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sergey Karaganov, a former adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said NATO\u2019s weapons deliveries could result in possible military retaliation against the nations supplying them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera: Russia says the delivery of NATO battle tanks to Ukraine is evidence of \u201cdirect and growing\u201d US and European involvement in the war, with one analyst suggesting supplying nations could become potential targets. The comments come after the United States and Germany on Wednesday said they would arm Ukraine with dozens of heavy tanks in its fight against Russian forces. \u201cThere are constant statements from European capitals and Washington that the sending of various weapons systems to Ukraine, including tanks, in no way signifies the involvement of these countries or the alliance in hostilities in Ukraine,\u201d Kremlin spokesperson&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29894","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\/29894","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=29894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29896,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29894\/revisions\/29896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}