{"id":249343,"date":"2022-02-09T08:55:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T08:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=249343"},"modified":"2022-02-10T07:47:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T07:47:10","slug":"thaad-near-kharkov-would-be-step-towards-destabilization-kremlin-spokesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=249343","title":{"rendered":"THAAD near Kharkov would be step towards destabilization \u2014 Kremlin spokesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TASS \u2013 Feb 7, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_249345\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/THAAD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249345\" class=\"wp-image-249345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/THAAD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/THAAD.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/THAAD-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 640px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-249345\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MOSCOW, February 7. \/TASS\/. Hypothetical deployment of US antimissile systems THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) near Kharkov would be another step towards destabilization of the situation, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, a diplomatic source said that Kiev had asked the United States to deploy several THAAD battalions near Kharkov.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This would be another step towards destabilization,&#8221; Peskov said.<\/p>\n<p>THAAD is a ground-based mobile missile defense system for high altitude interception intermediate and shorter-range ballistic missiles in the terminal phase (descent or reentry).<\/p>\n<p>Lately, the Western countries and Kiev have been speculating a great deal about the risks of Russia invading Ukraine. Peskov dismissed such allegations as groundless fanning of tensions. He stressed that Russia posed no threat to anyone. Also, he did not rule out the risk of provocations and warned that attempts at handling the crisis in southeastern Ukraine from the position of strength would entail dire effects.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1399229\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, a diplomatic source said that Ukraine had asked the U.S. to deploy several THAAD battalions near Kharkov. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS that if the deployment goes ahead it could have \u201cdire\u201d consequences<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249343","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=249343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249366,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249343\/revisions\/249366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}