{"id":135034,"date":"2025-03-04T16:58:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T12:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=135034"},"modified":"2025-03-04T17:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T13:04:03","slug":"kremlin-welcomes-us-decision-to-halt-military-aid-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/135034\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin welcomes US decision to halt military aid to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The Kremlin on Tuesday welcomed the U.S. pause in military aid to Ukraine, claiming it could push Kyiv to the negotiating table, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/mar\/04\/europe-live-news-us-military-aid-ukraine-peace-talks-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If this is true, then it is a decision that could genuinely push the Kyiv regime towards a peace process,&rdquo; Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists. &ldquo;This would probably be the best contribution to the cause of peace,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Peskov said he expected European countries to try to &ldquo;compensate&rdquo; for the shortfall in US ammunition supplies. &ldquo;But, of course, the main volume has still been coming from the US, through U.S. channels,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow also welcomed media reports that the US is considering a plan for possible sanctions relief for Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our position on sanctions is well known &ndash; we consider them illegal,&rdquo; Peskov said. &ldquo;Of course, if we&rsquo;re talking about normalizing bilateral relations, they need to be freed from this negative burden of so-called sanctions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kremlin on Tuesday welcomed the U.S. pause in military aid to Ukraine, claiming it could push Kyiv to the negotiating table, The Guardian writes. &ldquo;If this is true, then it is a decision that could genuinely push the Kyiv regime towards a peace process,&rdquo; Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists. &ldquo;This would probably be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":135026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}