{"id":2909,"date":"2014-12-12T16:53:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T21:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2014-12-12T16:53:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T21:53:14","slug":"us-destroying-foundation-of-cooperation-moscow-slams-anti-russian-ukraine-bill-rt-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2909","title":{"rendered":"US destroying foundation of cooperation: Moscow slams \u2018anti-Russian\u2019 Ukraine bill \u2014 RT News"},"content":{"rendered":"

US destroying foundation of cooperation: Moscow slams \u2018anti-Russian\u2019 Ukraine bill \u2014 RT News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry has decried the US Senate-backed Ukrainian support bill as \u201canti-Russian\u201d in a statement released on Friday evening. It says that Washington is seeking to \u201cdestroy cooperation\u201d between the two nations.<\/p>\n

The bill, titled,<\/span>\u201cAn act to support freedom in Ukraine in 2014\u201d<\/em>, would provide Kiev with weapons, millions of dollars in military assistance, and other forms of aid, in addition to imposing further sanctions on the Russian defense sector.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deeply critical of the move, the Foreign Ministry has accused Washington of refusing\u00a0\u201cto abandon outdated phobias about Russia\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and wanting to\u00a0\u201cturn back time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Ministry criticized the bill as overtly confrontational, saying that\u00a0\u201cWashington has, once again, levelled baseless accusations against Russia and threatened us with new sanctions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The US Senate voted unanimously in favor of the bill on Thursday. Senator and co-author of the bill, Bob Corker, said that unanimous Senate support for the bill shows\u00a0\u201ca firm commitment to Ukrainian sovereignty and to making sure Putin pays for his assault on freedom and security in Europe.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Foreign Ministry called on members of Congress\u00a0\u201cto abandon their illusions on the efficacy of sanctions in their heated campaign against Russia.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not submit to blackmail. We will not cede our national interests. And we will not tolerate interference in our internal affairs,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the statement reads.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian lawmakers, who had been pressing the West for military aid for months, welcomed the bill, calling it a\u00a0\u201chistoric decision.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US destroying foundation of cooperation: Moscow slams \u2018anti-Russian\u2019 Ukraine bill \u2014 RT News. Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry has decried the US Senate-backed Ukrainian support bill as \u201canti-Russian\u201d in a statement released on Friday evening. It says that Washington is seeking to \u201cdestroy cooperation\u201d between the two nations. The bill, titled,\u201cAn act to support freedom in Ukraine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1874,694,827,1237],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-anti-russian","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2910,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/2910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}