{"id":24505,"date":"2021-11-16T08:16:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T08:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=24505"},"modified":"2021-11-16T08:16:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T08:16:50","slug":"the-eu-must-choose-between-russian-gas-and-ukrainian-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=24505","title":{"rendered":"The EU must choose between Russian gas and Ukrainian defense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kyiv.Ukraine.Ukraine Gate \u2013 November 16,2021-  UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has stated that European countries must choose between relying on Russian gas and protecting Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHopefully, our friends will realize that they will soon have a choice between becoming more dependent on Russian hydrocarbons for their new giant pipelines and defending Ukraine along with supporting peace and stability, let me say so,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thus, the Prime Minister suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin could limit supplies from pipelines passing through Eastern Europe if European countries defend their intentions to protect Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Johnson also noted that &#8220;when we say that we support the sovereignty and integrity of Ukraine, it is not because we want to be enemies of Russia, and not because we want to somehow isolate this great country,&#8221; but because &#8220;we have commitment to democracy and freedom, which are now widespread in the vast masses of the European continent. &#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The day before the British media wrote that\u00a0\u00a0Great Britain was ready to send 600 troops\u00a0\u00a0to Ukraine amid fears that Moscow was preparing a military invasion of Ukraine.\u00a0Preparations began after the British Ministry of Defense and MI6 intelligence informed the government of the obvious and real danger to Ukraine and Western countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyiv.Ukraine.Ukraine Gate \u2013 November 16,2021- UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has stated that European countries must choose between relying on Russian gas and protecting Ukraine. \u201cHopefully, our friends will realize that they will soon have a choice between becoming more dependent on Russian hydrocarbons for their new giant pipelines and defending Ukraine along with supporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":24506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[524,535,748,5337,996],"class_list":["post-24505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international-news","tag-international-news","tag-johnson","tag-prime-minister","tag-russian-gas","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24507,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24505\/revisions\/24507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}