{"id":1113933,"date":"2021-12-13T09:28:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T14:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1113933"},"modified":"2021-12-13T09:28:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T14:28:45","slug":"eu-threatens-putin-aggression-against-ukraine-will-have-a-high-cost-for-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eu-threatens-putin-aggression-against-ukraine-will-have-a-high-cost-for-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Threatens Putin: &#039;Aggression Against Ukraine Will Have a High Cost for Russia&#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\">26<\/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%2Feu-threatens-putin-aggression-against-ukraine-will-have-a-high-cost-for-russia%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=1113933&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1215359650-e1639400494213-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">BRUSSELS (AP) \u2013 European Union foreign ministers met Monday to discuss how to thwart the threat of a possible new Russian invasion of Ukraine and what measures to take should Moscow decide to send its troops across the border.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. intelligence officials say Russia has moved 70,000 troops toward Ukraine\u2019s border and is preparing for a possible invasion early next year. Moscow denies it has any plans to attack Ukraine and rejects Western concerns as part of a smear campaign.<\/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>\u201cWe are on deter mode,\u201d to dissuade Russia, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.<\/p>\n<p>Borrell, who is chairing Monday\u2019s meeting, said that no decisions about sanctions against Russia would be taken but that the ministers would discuss what steps to take and when, in coordination with the United States and Britain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn any case, we will send a clear signal that any aggression against Ukraine will have a high cost for Russia\u201d and underline the 27-country bloc\u2019s support for Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity, Borrell told reporters in Brussels.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.3193277310924\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Foreign Secretary Liz Truss threatened that Russian action against Ukraine &#8220;would be a strategic mistake, and there will be severe consequences for Russia.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3y7xGfVQuW\">https:\/\/t.co\/3y7xGfVQuW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1469683403574317057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lithuania warned that Russia\u2019s troop movements of late were no mere menace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are convinced that Russia is actually preparing for the all-out war against Ukraine,\u201d Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said.<\/p>\n<p>If carried out, it would be \u201can unprecedented attack on a country that shows a Western direction. That means that the answer has to be unprecedented from the Western countries as well,\u201d Landsbergis said.<\/p>\n<p>But the EU\u2019s big powers, France and Germany, and other members of the 27-nation further from Russia\u2019s borders, do not share the same assessment as the U.S., Poland, and the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. They acknowledge Russia\u2019s troop movements but do not consider an attack imminent.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, France and Germany brokered a peace agreement that helped end large-scale hostilities in Ukraine\u2019s east, where Ukrainian forces have been fighting Russia-backed separatists since 2014, when Russia annexed Ukraine\u2019s Crimean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to reach a political settlement to the separatist conflict, which has killed more than 14,000 people in seven years, have failed. Sporadic skirmishes continue along the tense line of contact. Russia so far refuses to meet France and Germany for more \u201cNormandy format\u201d peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>The EU foreign ministers\u2019 meeting is a prelude to a busy week of diplomacy in Brussels focused on Ukraine. The leaders of EU nations meet Wednesday with their counterparts from Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova. An EU summit on Thursday is expected to also focus on what actions might be necessary.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.4260089686099\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is cautioning against the overheated rhetoric with regards to a possible armed conflict with Russia over Ukraine. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1tHJfTJo0N\">https:\/\/t.co\/1tHJfTJo0N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1468979182642339847?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS (AP) \u2013 European Union foreign ministers met Monday to discuss how to thwart the threat of a possible new Russian invasion of Ukraine and what measures to take should &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"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-1113933","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\/1113933","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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113933\/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=1113933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}