{"id":470254,"date":"2021-12-14T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=470254"},"modified":"2021-12-14T18:07:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T16:07:27","slug":"the-potential-for-blackmailing-volodymyr-zelenskyy-commented-on-the-accumulation-of-russian-troops-on-the-border-with-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/the-potential-for-blackmailing-volodymyr-zelenskyy-commented-on-the-accumulation-of-russian-troops-on-the-border-with-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Potential for blackmailing&#8221;: Volodymyr Zelenskyy commented on the accumulation of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Russia threatens Ukraine to blackmail the West.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This opinion was expressed by President <strong>Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/strong> in an interview to the Italian newspaper \u2018La Repubblica\u2019, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/en\/news\/volodimir-zelenskij-v-intervyu-la-repubblica-rosiya-pogrozhu-72009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Office of the Presiden<\/a>t reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat are the troops gathered near our border used for? This is the potential for blackmail. And first of all against the <strong>western states<\/strong>. But if the number of Russian troops grows, blackmail will become even more severe, which can be called preparation for the expansion of aggression against our state and, perhaps, the region as a whole\u201d \u2013 he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the head of state, Ukraine sees no surprises in what is happening on its eastern borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00abRussia started this war in 2014, and since then we have been ready for any scenario. Unfortunately, this cannot be said of all European countries. For example, Germany has recently prevented us from receiving anti-drone rifles and anti-sniper systems, which are exclusively defense tools, from NATO. Are we not entitled to them in the eighth year of the war? Obviously we are. Any democracy that protects itself from aggression should have the right to acquire such defense instruments. But in some capitals, fear still prevails\u201d &#8211; Volodymyr Zelenskyy added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier Ukraine\u2019s defense minister Reznikov said that the strategy &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/the-strategy-not-to-provoke-russia-will-not-work-reznikov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">not to provoke Russia<\/a>&#8221; will not work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read also:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/situation-on-the-border-of-ukraine-and-the-russian-federation-was-the-key-topic-of-the-conversation-between-the-presidents-of-the-us-and-finland\/\"> Situation on the border of Ukraine and the Russian Federation was the key topic of the conversation between the presidents of the US and Finland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia threatens Ukraine to blackmail the West.&nbsp; This opinion was expressed by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":470260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,56,53,55,50],"tags":[78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-470254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-politics","category-russia-en","category-ukraine-en","category-svit-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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