{"id":1100465,"date":"2021-12-08T21:43:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T02:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1100465"},"modified":"2021-12-08T21:43:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T02:43:38","slug":"ukrainian-soldiers-dismiss-russia-invasion-threat-there-are-a-lot-of-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukrainian-soldiers-dismiss-russia-invasion-threat-there-are-a-lot-of-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Soldiers Dismiss Russia Invasion Threat: &#039;There Are a Lot of Lies&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fukrainian-soldiers-dismiss-russia-invasion-threat-there-are-a-lot-of-lies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1100465&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Ukrainian soldiers stationed along Ukraine\u2019s border with Russia in the eastern Donbas region&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/ukraine-russia-frontline-soldiers-invasion-gallery\/31597978.html\">told<\/a> Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty (RFE\/RL) on Tuesday they \u201cdon\u2019t believe a [Russian] invasion is coming\u201d to the region as speculated by Western media in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government-funded RFE\/RL published a handful of interviews with four border soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on December 7 that \u201cdownplay recent warnings from Kyiv and Western intelligence agencies that Moscow may be planning a major new offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c[M]ost soldiers don\u2019t believe an invasion is coming,\u201d a female Ukrainian soldier named Iryna told the broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe front line doesn\u2019t feel any different now than before,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother reason they [Ukrainian soldiers] don\u2019t buy these rumors is because there are a lot of lies in our country,\u201d Iryna revealed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEveryone in powerful positions lies. Our president promised to end the war within a week of coming to power. Now, two years on, here we are,\u201d she assessed.<\/p>\n<p>Iryna referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-48007487\">elected<\/a> to the nation\u2019s highest office in May 2019 amid an ongoing war between the Ukrainian Armed Forces and pro-Russian Ukrainian separatists in Donbas. The Donbas dispute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russia-says-ukraine-trying-drag-it-into-donbass-conflict-2021-11-01\/\">began<\/a>&nbsp;in March 2014 and is part of a greater Kyiv-Moscow conflict that includes Russia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1265561\">colonization<\/a> of Ukraine\u2019s Crimean Peninsula in 2014.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17119706\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"39\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1233447259.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17119706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1233447259.png\" alt=\"Volodymyr Zelensky\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky talks to journalists in his office in Kiev on June 14, 2021, before his interview for three international agencies, including AFP, prior to a summit with US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 16. (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI personally don\u2019t believe in the danger of some great invasion,\u201d Ukrainian soldier Timur told RFE\/RL on December 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s just game-playing. It was the same situation in April and May this year,\u201d he recalled. \u201cThere were all these rumors of a possible attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Moscow instigated media speculation that Russia might attack Ukraine in April and May to \u201censure completion of its Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline,\u201d Timur opined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis time, it\u2019s probably just [Russian President Vladimir] Putin trying to exert pressure again,\u201d he postulated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what I\u2019ve heard, the Kremlin is trying to get a guarantee that NATO will not spread to Ukraine and other countries of the Eastern Partnership, like Georgia and Moldova,\u201d the 28-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p>Another Ukrainian border soldier named Vlad told RFE\/RL he doubted that Russia\u2019s military was planning an invasion of Ukraine in the near future because of the relatively small number of troops they have stationed near Donbas in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Russian Army isn\u2019t prepared for war,\u201d he stated. \u201cThey haven\u2019t got field hospitals or fuel tankers ready, and they don\u2019t have many soldiers or vehicles prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey would need 300,000 to 400,000 troops to attack; now they have just 100,000 massed,\u201d Vlad revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian soldiers stationed along Ukraine\u2019s border with Russia in the eastern Donbas region\u00a0told Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty (RFE\/RL) on Tuesday they \u201cdon\u2019t believe a [Russian] invasion is coming\u201d to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}