{"id":246210,"date":"2021-11-29T08:27:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T08:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=246210"},"modified":"2022-02-28T17:48:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T17:48:03","slug":"russia-warns-uk-there-is-a-serious-risk-of-war-with-tensions-rising-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=246210","title":{"rendered":"Russia warns UK there is a &#8216;serious risk&#8217; of war with tensions rising in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Paul Byrne \u2013 The Mirror Nov 28, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Russia has warned the UK there is a \u201cserious risk\u201d of war as tensions rise in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_148760\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/British-armour-heading-to-the-front-line.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148760\" class=\"wp-image-148760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/British-armour-heading-to-the-front-line.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-148760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">British armour heading to the front line. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Kremlin reacted after Britain announced plans last week to send an armoured brigade back into Germany, a decade after pulling its troops out.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has accused the UK of moving closer to its territory.<\/p>\n<p>But in recent weeks Russian tanks have been seen moving close to the border with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>And there are fears President Putin is on the brink of ordering his forces into Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Allied nations have responded by issuing declarations of solidarity with the Kiev government.<\/p>\n<p>Andrei Kelin, Russia\u2019s ambassador to the UK, has now warned there is \u201ca pretty serious risk\u201d of war between the countries.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cThere is a risk of war on our border. It\u2019s pretty serious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a possibility that there is a spark and an incident can occur. Nato is stepping up its presence along the borders of the Russian federation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have lots of manoeuvring now in the Baltic Sea. We have strategic aviation, with nuclear warheads, flying 20km close to the borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ambassador said the decision by the UK defence secretary, Ben Wallace, last week to move an armoured brigade back to Germany in response to increased Russian aggression sparked anger in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>He accused Britain of \u201cstepping closer and closer\u201d to Russia\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n<p>And he also warned that further reinforcement of Nato forces in Ukraine would be interpreted as \u201ca threat to invade Russia\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian military intelligence has said there are more than 92,000 Russian troops massed near its border.<\/p>\n<p>Jens Stoltenberg, the Nato chief, has said if Russia used force against Ukraine, \u201cthat would have consequences\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>And the US state department has said \u201call options are on the table\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/russia-warns-uk-serious-risk-25565986\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Britain prepares to deploy an armoured brigade to Germany, Russia\u2019s ambassador to the UK has warned that there is a growing risk of war on the Ukraine\/Russian border<\/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":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246210","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=246210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246241,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246210\/revisions\/246241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}