{"id":3386,"date":"2025-12-15T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/15\/kremlin-blames-nato-presence-in-ukraine-for-war\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:30:14","slug":"kremlin-blames-nato-presence-in-ukraine-for-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/15\/kremlin-blames-nato-presence-in-ukraine-for-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin Blames NATO Presence in Ukraine for Triggering War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kremlin has stated that the presence and activities of NATO forces and experts in Ukraine were key factors behind Moscow&#8217;s decision to launch the war.<\/p>\n<p>Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman for the Russian presidential office, told Russian state television that NATO specialists were not only present in Ukraine but also involved in the country&#8217;s governmental structures and institutions \u2014 a situation he said raised serious security concerns for Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Peskov pointed to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy&#8217;s conduct after his 2019 election victory, saying that while he campaigned on a platform of peace, he ultimately, according to the Kremlin, failed to implement the Minsk agreements and escalated tensions.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Kremlin spokesman, the visible presence of NATO experts in Ukraine, combined with the delivery of weapons to Kyiv, posed a direct threat to Russian citizens in Ukraine and a broader danger to Russian national security. He emphasized that these combined factors led to Moscow\u2019s decision to initiate what it calls a &#8220;special military operation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kremlin says NATO&#8217;s involvement in Ukraine was a key reason for launching its military operation, citing security threats and failed peace efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}