{"id":106903,"date":"2021-11-15T12:06:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T17:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=106903"},"modified":"2021-11-15T19:09:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T00:09:07","slug":"ft-ukraine-warned-of-high-probability-of-russian-military-escalation-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=106903","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Ukraine warned of \u2018high probability\u2019 of Russian military escalation this winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Western intelligence suggests a \u201chigh probability of destabilisation\u201d of Ukraine by Russia as soon as this winter after Moscow massed more than 90,000 troops at its border, according to Kyiv\u2019s deputy defence minister.<\/p>\n<p>Hanna Maliar told the Financial Times at the weekend that while interpretations of western intelligence \u201cneed further discussion\u201d, they underlined \u201cthe high probability of escalation of the situation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the risk of Russian military aggression was higher than during the past years, she said: \u201cInformation of our [military intelligence services] coincides with the information of partner countries about the high probability of destabilisation of the situation in Ukraine this winter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maliar added that allies\u2019 conclusions were \u201cbased not only on information about the number of Russian troops along the Ukrainian border\u201d, suggesting Washington had additional intelligence about Russian leader Vladimir Putin\u2019s intentions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/d4eada1f-2849-4d3a-9c40-be797addd8cb\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Maliar added that allies\u2019 conclusions were \u201cbased not only on information about the number of Russian troops along the Ukrainian border\u201d, suggesting Washington had additional intelligence about Russian leader Vladimir Putin\u2019s intentions.<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zKLkjN40rU\">https:\/\/t.co\/zKLkjN40rU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jmartNYT\/status\/1460090661852622849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western intelligence suggests a \u201chigh probability of destabilisation\u201d of Ukraine by Russia as soon as this winter after Moscow massed more than 90,000 troops at its border, according to Kyiv\u2019s deputy defence minister. Hanna Maliar told the Financial Times at<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=106903\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,144,106,151,479,469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-military-armed-forces","category-politics-in-general","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106906,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106903\/revisions\/106906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}