{"id":64323,"date":"2022-12-02T14:11:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T19:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64323"},"modified":"2022-12-02T14:11:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T19:11:06","slug":"russia-now-says-us-nato-directly-participating-in-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64323","title":{"rendered":"Russia Now Says US & NATO “Directly Participating” In Ukraine War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russia Now Says US & NATO “Directly Participating” In Ukraine War<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Earlier this week\u00a0CNN reported that the Biden administration is\u00a0considering<\/a>\u00a0“dramatically” increasing its training of Ukrainian forces.\u00a0The proposal would involve US advisers\u00a0training “much larger groups of Ukrainian soldiers in more sophisticated battlefield tactics” at American installations in Germany, and possibly other locations in Europe. This could involve as many as 2,500 Ukrainian soldiers trained by US advisers a month, which over a half-year period would total\u00a015,000 going through the proposed ramped-up US program<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This report and others, which have also detailed expanding military training programs for Ukrainians in Europe overseen by UK and other NATO-member militaries, has prompted a Friday response from the Kremlin. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov alleged Thursday that\u00a0the US and NATO are now directly participating in the Ukraine war<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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“You shouldn\u2019t say that the US and NATO aren\u2019t taking part in this war. You are directly participating in it,”<\/strong>\u00a0Lavrov\u00a0told a press briefing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“And not just by providing weapons but also by training personnel.\u00a0You are training their military on your territory, on the territories of Britain, Germany, Italy, and other countries<\/strong>,” he pointed out.<\/p>\n

He reiterated prior Kremlin statements underscoring that war between nuclear powers is “unacceptable” but while highlighting that growing US-NATO involvement greatly heightens this risk.<\/p>\n

“Even if someone plans to start it by conventional means,\u00a0the risk of escalation into a nuclear war will be enormous<\/strong>,” Lavrov added.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lavrov’s comments are hugely significant given up to this point Moscow slammed what it called “indirect” American involvement. Russian officials spoke of the growing\u00a0proxy war\u00a0<\/em>nature of the conflict. But now it appears the Kremlin sees that there’s been\u00a0an escalation to\u00a0direct\u00a0<\/em>NATO involvement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Russia Now Says US & NATO “Directly Participating” In Ukraine War Earlier this week\u00a0CNN reported that the Biden administration is\u00a0considering\u00a0“dramatically” increasing its training of Ukrainian forces.\u00a0The proposal would involve US advisers\u00a0training “much larger groups of Ukrainian soldiers in more sophisticated battlefield tactics” at American installations in Germany, and possibly other locations in Europe. This could […]<\/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":[281,553,694,821,827,862,891],"class_list":["post-64323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-europe","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-world-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64323","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=64323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64324,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64323\/revisions\/64324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}