{"id":17475,"date":"2022-04-28T10:06:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T08:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=17475"},"modified":"2022-04-28T10:10:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T08:10:07","slug":"russian-invasion-force-discovered-to-be-cancerous-limpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=17475","title":{"rendered":"Russian invasion force <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">discovered<\/span> to be <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">cancerous<\/span> limpet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/apr\/28\/russia-ukraine-war-putin-warns-of-lightning-fast-retaliation-if-west-intervenes-war-has-cost-ukraine-600bn-zelenskiy-says-live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>UK defence secretary Ben Wallace has warned that having failed in his main objectives, Russian President Vladimir Putin may order his troops to fortify and dig in, and become a \u201ccancerous growth\u201d in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Interviewed on Sky News in the UK, he said the UK supported pushing Russia completely out of Ukraine, and did not rule out supporting Ukraine in recapturing Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. He said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;It\u2019s certainly the case that Putin, having failed in nearly all of his objectives, may seek to consolidate what he\u2019s got. Sort of fortify and dig in as he did in 2014. And just be a sort of cancerous growth within the country of Ukraine and make it very hard for people to move them out of those fortified positions. If we want this to not happen, we have to help Ukraine try to get the limpet off the rock and keep the momentum pushing them back.<\/p>\n<p>The international community believes Russia should leave Ukraine. The international community condemned Russia for its invasion of Crimea, which was illegal in 2014, [and] its invasion of Donetsk. We\u2019ve constantly said that Russia should leave Ukraine sovereign territory, so that hasn\u2019t changed.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a long way to go before Ukraine forces are in Crimea. What I would certainly say is that we are supporting Ukraine sovereign integrity. We\u2019ve done that all along. Now of course that includes Crimea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: UK defence secretary Ben Wallace has warned that having failed in his main objectives, Russian President Vladimir Putin may order his troops to fortify and dig in, and become a \u201ccancerous growth\u201d in Ukraine. Interviewed on Sky News in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=17475\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}