{"id":3961,"date":"2021-11-15T12:12:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T12:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2021-11-15T12:12:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T12:12:50","slug":"us-secretary-blinken-spoke-with-french-counterpart-on-russian-military-activity-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/us-secretary-blinken-spoke-with-french-counterpart-on-russian-military-activity-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"US Secretary Blinken spoke with French counterpart on Russian military activity in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The United States (U.S) Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke on Saturday with French Foreign Minister (FM) Jean-Yves Le Drian to discuss reports of what they called &#8220;concerning&#8221; Russian military activity in and near Ukraine, the U.S. State Department said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said there are nearly 100,000 Russian soldiers near Ukraine\u2019s border and that Western countries had shared information about active Russian troop movements with Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken and the French foreign minister also discussed joint efforts to address Iran\u2019s nuclear program, according to the State Department.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/russian-president-putin-ends-self-isolation-with-siberian-fishing-trip.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Russian President Putin ends self-isolation with Siberian fishing trip<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The United States (U.S) Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke on Saturday with French Foreign Minister (FM) Jean-Yves Le Drian to discuss reports of what they called &#8220;concerning&#8221; Russian military activity in and near Ukraine, the U.S. State Department said on Sunday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said there are nearly 100,000 Russian soldiers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2550,2548,2547],"class_list":["post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-russian-troops","tag-u-s-state-department","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}