{"id":241810,"date":"2021-08-31T06:25:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T06:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=241810"},"modified":"2021-09-02T07:12:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T07:12:08","slug":"vladimir-putin-says-hes-not-allowing-afghan-refugees-into-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=241810","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin says he\u2019s not allowing Afghan refugees into Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jorge Fitz-Gibbon &#8212; New York Post Aug 22, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday his country won\u2019t accept Afghan refugees because he doesn\u2019t want to deal with \u201cmilitants\u201d masquerading as asylum-seekers.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian strongman slammed Western nations for placing Afghan refugees in countries even near his border while their US and European visas are being processed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes that mean that they can be sent without visas to those countries, to our neighbors, while they themselves don\u2019t want to take them without visas?\u201d Putin raged to the Russian TASS news agency. \u201cWhy is there such a humiliating approach to solving the problem?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He said he will not accept \u201cmilitants showing up here under cover of refugees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US has negotiated with various countries to at least temporarily accept Afghans who are fleeing their country after its swift <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/article\/who-are-the-taliban-and-what-are-they-planning\/\">takeover by the Taliban<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/08\/15\/taliban-assumes-control-of-afghanistan-reports\/\">Islamic extremist group took control<\/a> of the country after President Biden ordered the withdrawal of US forces following a 20-year presence.<\/p>\n<p>Russian officials have not joined in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/08\/19\/up-to-80k-americans-afghans-need-to-be-evacuated-from-kabul\/\">effort to evacuate thousands<\/a> of desperate Afghans at Kabul airport seeking to flee the country.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, the Kremlin has praised the Taliban for \u201crestoring order\u201d to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are seeing the statements the Talibs made about ceasing combat actions, an amnesty for all of those involved in the confrontation, about a need for a nationwide dialogue,\u201d Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. \u201cThey are being implemented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/08\/22\/vladimir-putin-refuses-to-allow-afghan-refugees-into-russia\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian leader said his country will not accept Afghan refugees because he doesn\u2019t want to deal with \u201cmilitants\u201d masquerading as asylum-seekers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Afghanistan","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241811,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241810\/revisions\/241811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}