{"id":260813,"date":"2022-11-06T09:13:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T09:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=260813"},"modified":"2022-11-07T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T12:13:00","slug":"u-s-privately-asking-ukraine-to-drop-public-refusal-of-peace-talks-with-russia-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=260813","title":{"rendered":"U.S. privately asking Ukraine to drop public refusal of peace talks with Russia: Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Julia Shapero \u2013 The Hill Nov 5, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The United States privately asked Ukraine to drop its public refusal of peace talks with Russia and signal a willingness to engage in negotiations, as the war in Ukraine drags into its ninth month,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2022\/11\/05\/ukraine-russia-peace-negotiations\/?utm_source=alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&amp;location=alert\">The Washington Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The move is reportedly a strategic effort by the U.S. to ensure ongoing support for Kyiv, according to the Post.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky initially expressed a willingness to negotiate early in the war. However, after Russian President Vladimir Putin formally annexed four regions of Ukraine in late September, Zelensky issued a declaration stating that it would be impossible to hold peace talks with Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky\u2019s refusal to engage with Putin has drawn concern from other countries. South Africa joined about three dozen other countries in abstaining from a UN vote in October condemning Russia\u2019s annexation of Ukrainian territories, instead urging for a focus on facilitating a cease fire, according to the Post.<\/p>\n<p>In the U.S., congressional support for the war in Ukraine has also begun to falter, among both Republicans and Democrats. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) suggested last month that Republicans will reign in Ukraine spending if they retake the House in Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) took a more extreme approach earlier this week, promising that \u201cnot another penny will go to Ukraine\u201d under Republican leadership in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>House progressives also sent a letter to President Biden last month, which they have since withdrawn, urging him to push harder for a diplomatic resolution to the the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/3721682-u-s-privately-asking-ukraine-to-drop-public-refusal-of-peace-talks-with-russia-washington-post\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are Ukraine\u2019s foreign backers urging it to seek a genuine and lasting settlement with Moscow? Or do they simply want to buy Kiev more time with negotiations, while they re-supply and partially restore its military capacity?  <\/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-260813","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\/260813","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=260813"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260865,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260813\/revisions\/260865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}