{"id":410027,"date":"2022-01-23T09:03:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T09:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=410027"},"modified":"2022-01-23T09:03:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T09:03:20","slug":"uk-accuses-russia-of-trying-to-install-pro-kremlin-govt-in-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/uk-accuses-russia-of-trying-to-install-pro-kremlin-govt-in-kyiv\/","title":{"rendered":"UK accuses Russia of trying to install pro-Kremlin gov\u2019t in Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has accused the Kremlin of seeking to install a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/1\/22\/us-military-aid-arrives-in-ukraine-amid-russia-border-tensions\">fears of a Russian invasion<\/a>\u00a0of Ukraine grow.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Office said in a statement Russian intelligence officers had been in contact with a number of former Ukrainian politicians as part of plans for an invasion and that former parliamentarian Yevgen Murayev was being considered as a potential leader.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-on\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe information being released today shines a light on the extent of Russian activity designed to subvert Ukraine, and is an insight into Kremlin thinking,\u201d said UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia must de-escalate, end its campaigns of aggression and disinformation, and pursue a path of diplomacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-inc=\"1\">In Washington, DC, US National Security Council spokeswoman Emily Horne said Russia\u2019s \u201cplotting\u201d was \u201cdeeply concerning\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ukrainian people have the sovereign right to determine their own future, and we stand with our democratically elected partners in Ukraine,\u201d Horne said.<\/p>\n<p>The British foreign ministry did not provide evidence to back its accusations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aljazeera<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has accused the Kremlin of seeking to install a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine as\u00a0fears of a Russian invasion\u00a0of Ukraine grow. The Foreign Office said in a statement Russian intelligence officers had been in contact with a number of former Ukrainian politicians as part of plans for an invasion and that former parliamentarian Yevgen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":410028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-410027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410029,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410027\/revisions\/410029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}