{"id":2868,"date":"2021-12-12T15:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T10:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2021-12-12T15:25:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T10:25:18","slug":"g7-warns-russia-of-massive-consequences-if-ukraine-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/world\/g7-warns-russia-of-massive-consequences-if-ukraine-attacked\/","title":{"rendered":"G7 warns Russia of &#8216;massive consequences&#8217; if Ukraine attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LIVERPOOL, Dec 12 (Reuters): The Group of Seven richest democracies warned Russia on Sunday of &#8220;massive consequences&#8221; if President Vladimir Putin attacked Ukraine, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a summit in the northern English city Liverpool, the G7 delegates said they were united in their condemnation of Russia&#8217;s military build-up near Ukraine and they called on Moscow to de-escalate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Russia should be in no doubt that further military aggression against Ukraine would have massive consequences and severe cost,&#8221; the draft statement said, confirmed by G7 sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine is at the centre of a crisis in East-West relations as it accuses Russia of massing tens of thousands of troops in preparation for a possible large-scale military offensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia denies planning any attack and accuses Ukraine and the United States of destabilising behaviour, and has said it needs security guarantees for its own protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The G7 comprises Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada and the United States, and includes a representative from the European Union.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIVERPOOL, Dec 12 (Reuters): The Group of Seven richest democracies warned Russia on Sunday of &#8220;massive consequences&#8221; if President Vladimir Putin attacked Ukraine, according to Reuters. At a summit in the northern English city Liverpool, the G7 delegates said they were united in their condemnation of Russia&#8217;s military build-up near Ukraine and they called on [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,342,6],"tags":[311,1358,226,199,497],"class_list":["post-2868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-politics","category-world","tag-eu","tag-g7","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}