{"id":245518,"date":"2026-03-19T18:17:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=245518"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:42:04","slug":"kremlin-says-talks-over-ukraine-are-on-situational-pause-due-to-middle-east-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/245518\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin says talks over Ukraine are on \u2018situational pause\u2019 due to Middle East war"},"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 said on Thursday that talks between Washington, Moscow and Kyiv on ending &zwnj;the war in Ukraine were on &ldquo;situational pause&rdquo; following the start of the Iran war, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/ukraine-peace-talks-paused-amid-iran-war-russias-izvestia-says-2026-03-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to Izvestia, Reuters &#8203;said the Kremlin had confirmed a pause in talks on Ukraine and &#8203;that war in the Middle East could push Kyiv towards compromise.<\/p>\n<p>Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that as &#8203;soon as &ldquo;our American partners&rdquo; could pay more attention to Ukrainian affairs, Moscow hoped that the pause could end and &#8203;that a new round of talks could take place.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kremlin said on Thursday that talks between Washington, Moscow and Kyiv on ending &zwnj;the war in Ukraine were on &ldquo;situational pause&rdquo; following the start of the Iran war, Reuters writes. Referring to Izvestia, Reuters &#8203;said the Kremlin had confirmed a pause in talks on Ukraine and &#8203;that war in the Middle East could push [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":245365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245518","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=245518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245547,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245518\/revisions\/245547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}