{"id":270092,"date":"2023-06-18T07:10:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T07:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=270092"},"modified":"2023-06-19T07:13:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T07:13:57","slug":"putin-warns-of-increasing-risk-of-nato-involvement-in-ukraine-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=270092","title":{"rendered":"Putin warns of increasing risk of NATO involvement in Ukraine conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Islamabad Post \u2013 June 17, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday there was a \u201cserious danger\u201d that the NATO military alliance could be pulled further into the Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Putin spoke at the plenary session of Russia\u2019s flagship St Petersburg International Economic Forum.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">PUTIN: OPEC+ PRODUCTION CUTS ARE NON-POLITICAL<\/h3>\n<p>Putin said on Friday that decisions made by the OPEC+ group to cut oil production were \u201cdepoliticized\u201d and were not connected to what Moscow calls its \u201cspecial military operation\u201d in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to tell you that all the decisions made within the framework of OPEC+ to reduce production are, above all, of a depoliticised nature,\u201d Putin said in comments to the St Petersburg International Economic Forum.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">PUTIN: UKRAINE OFFENSIVE STANDS \u2018NO CHANCE\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Putin said Ukraine\u2019s counteroffensive would fail as Kyiv\u2019s troops sought to advance in several directions, including the southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that Ukraine\u2019s armed forces stand no chance here, as well as in other directions \u2014 I have no doubt about that,\u201d Putin told an annual economic forum in Saint Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>Putin claimed Ukraine\u2019s armed forces were suffering \u201cheavy losses\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn some places Ukrainian units are managing to reach the first line (of defence), in other places they are failing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are using the so-called strategic reserves,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Putin said Ukrainian forces did not achieve their objectives in any section of the front, adding: \u201cThat\u2019s the important thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cRUSSIA COULD DESTROY PARTS OF CENTRAL KYIV BUT HAS CHOSEN NOT TO\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Putin said Russia\u2019s military could destroy parts of central Kyiv but had chosen not to for various reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks on Russia\u2019s border territories were an attempt to distract Moscow\u2019s forces from other fronts, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/islamabadpost.com.pk\/putin-warns-of-increasing-risk-of-nato-involvement-in-ukraine-conflict\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Putin warns that there is a serious danger that the Western military alliance could be more deeply into the war in Ukraine<\/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-270092","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\/270092","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=270092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270093,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270092\/revisions\/270093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}