{"id":1284501,"date":"2022-02-09T09:23:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T14:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1284501"},"modified":"2022-02-09T09:23:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T14:23:32","slug":"ukraine-border-villagers-no-one-believes-joe-biden-war-hype-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-border-villagers-no-one-believes-joe-biden-war-hype-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Border Villagers: &#039;No One Believes&#039; Joe Biden War Hype Here"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fukraine-border-villagers-no-one-believes-joe-biden-war-hype-here%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=1284501&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\">Residents of the remote Ukrainian village of Blahovishchenka, which borders Russia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/ukraine-village-surrounded-russia-invasion-life\/31691298.html\">told<\/a> Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty (RFE\/RL) on Monday they have seen no evidence in recent days indicating Moscow plans to stage a new military invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[F]rom Blahovishchenka, the closest staging ground for any new Russian invasion force is about a four-hour drive almost due south, and aside from the rare echoes of gunshots, there\u2019s no reason that villagers expect to see tanks rolling through the town or through fallow fields,\u201d&nbsp;RFE\/RL reported on February 6.<\/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>\u201cWar? No one believes it here,\u201d Blahovishchenka resident Oleksandr Kopov, 60, told the U.S. government-funded broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy don\u2019t I believe it? Well, in 2014, when this whole mess began, in Ukraine, the road was still open, the border was open, we went back and forth without checkpoints,\u201d Kopov explained.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ukraine on Monday dismissed the Biden State Department&#8217;s withdrawal of the families of U.S. embassy staff in Kyiv as &#8220;premature.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6nyqLuyAi7\">https:\/\/t.co\/6nyqLuyAi7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1485765049293680641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe had tanks here, National Guard everywhere, soldiers. Here at every field, there was heavy equipment,\u201d he recalled, referring to Ukrainian military forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we don\u2019t see anything. Nothing. Totally empty. If they were hiding something, we\u2019d see it. You can\u2019t hide equipment from the villagers,\u201d Kopov, who was born in&nbsp;Blahovishchenka, said.<\/p>\n<p>Kopov referred to claims by various U.S. government officials and corporate media outlets in recent days <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/07\/biden-admin-tries-keep-panic-alive-ukraine-says-chance-russian-invasion-low\/\">alleging<\/a> Russia was preparing to stage a new military invasion of Ukraine sometime in the immediate future despite assurances by Kyiv the assertions were not based in fact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny day now, Russia could take military action against Ukraine \u2013 or it could be a couple of weeks from now \u2013 or Russia could choose to take the diplomatic path instead,\u201d Jake Sullivan, the U.S. National Security Adviser to President Joe Biden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2022\/02\/06\/national-security-advisor-sullivan-russia-could-invade-ukraine-any-day-now\/\">told<\/a> <em>Fox News Sunday<\/em> on February 6.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19814274\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1369531092.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19814274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1369531092-1024x708-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"684\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Protesters dressed as Russian President Vladimir Putin (L), U.S. President Joe Biden (C) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attend a small rally to demand a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis on February 09, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Blahovishchenka is located in eastern Ukraine\u2019s Luhansk region, part of the greater Donbas that has been at war since 2014. The village is practically surrounded on three sides by the Russian region of Rostov and relied, until recently, on Russian state services for its internet connection. Russian state television broadcasts are preferred by Blahovishchenka residents as \u201csignals for Ukrainian channels are too weak,\u201d according to RFE\/RL.<\/p>\n<p>The borders of Ukraine\u2019s Luhansk region were altered during a war that broke out between Kyiv and Moscow in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUkrainian government forces now face off against Russia-backed separatists along the \u2018line of contact\u2019 that zigzags through the province and the neighboring Donetsk region,\u201d RFE\/RL detailed on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of the remote Ukrainian village of Blahovishchenka, which borders Russia, told Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty (RFE\/RL) on Monday they have seen no evidence in recent days indicating Moscow plans &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1284501","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\/1284501","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284501\/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=1284501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}