{"id":165653,"date":"2015-07-14T06:26:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T06:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=165653"},"modified":"2015-07-14T06:26:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T06:26:51","slug":"us-accuses-russia-trying-collapse-ukraine-economically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/us-accuses-russia-trying-collapse-ukraine-economically\/","title":{"rendered":"US accuses Russia of trying to collapse Ukraine economically"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>US Vice President Joe Biden has accused the Russian government of trying to collapse Ukraine economically, saying Kiev is \u201cnow under siege.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russia is trying to undermine the stability and sovereignty of Ukraine by any means it can, including attempting to create conditions that would cause Ukraine to economically collapse,&#8221; Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a matter of fact, that&#8217;s its first preference,\u201d he added. &#8220;But we can\u2019t let that strategy succeed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden made the remarks at a forum for American and Ukrainian business leaders at the US Chamber of Commerce on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The vice president also claimed Moscow is sending troops and weapons to destabilize Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russia is building military outposts on Ukrainian soil,&#8221; Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It relentlessly continues to send Russian troops, Russian hired thugs and mercenaries, Russian tanks, and Russian missiles into numerous parts of Ukraine,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The United States accuses Russia of sending troops into eastern Ukraine in support of the pro-Russian forces, an allegation denied by the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/07\/14\/420162\/US-Russia-Ukraine-economy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Vice President Joe Biden has accused the Russian government of trying to collapse Ukraine economically, saying Kiev is \u201cnow under siege.\u201d &#8220;Russia is trying to undermine the stability and sovereignty of Ukraine by any means it can, including attempting to create conditions that would cause Ukraine to economically collapse,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;As a matter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-165653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}