{"id":178792,"date":"2025-06-12T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T16:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178792\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T16:20:10","slug":"ukraine-blasts-russia-day-well-wishers-as-rubio-sends-greetings-to-moscow-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178792\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine blasts Russia Day well-wishers as Rubio sends greetings to Moscow \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/2025\/06\/russia-national-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">congratulatory message<\/a>, Rubio wrote that the U.S. \u201cremains committed to supporting the Russian people as they continue to build on their aspirations for a brighter future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also take this opportunity to reaffirm the United States\u2019 desire for constructive engagement with the Russian Federation to bring about a durable peace between Russia and Ukraine,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt is our hope that peace will foster more mutually beneficial relations between our countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/zarubinreporter\/4077\" target=\"_blank\">called Rubio\u2019s greeting<\/a> \u201cvery positive news,\u201d which confirms that the current White House administration is \u201ccompletely different from the previous Biden administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has sought to reset relations with Russia and President Vladimir Putin, who he has praised repeatedly since first taking office in 2016. But in recent weeks, Trump has shown signs of frustration with Putin and questioned Moscow\u2019s willingness to make peace with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia is simply lying to Trump,\u201d Ukrainian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/volodymyr-zelenskyy-war-in-ukraine-russia-vladimir-putin-donald-trump-peace-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday<\/a>, adding that he hopes the White House recognizes that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his congratulatory message, Rubio wrote that the U.S. \u201cremains committed to supporting the Russian people as they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[5293,2820,332,1771,657,49,333,2601,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-178792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-diplomacy","9":"tag-marco-rubio","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","12":"tag-ukraine","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-vladimir-putin","15":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","16":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114671309622601343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}