{"id":57789,"date":"2023-08-23T23:37:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T14:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/23\/putin-defend-russian-invasion-ukraine-brics-summit-south-africa"},"modified":"2023-08-23T23:37:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T14:37:35","slug":"putin-defends-invasion-of-ukraine-in-brics-summit-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57789","title":{"rendered":"Putin defends invasion of Ukraine in Brics summit address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president seeks to rally leaders meeting in South Africa to Moscow\u2019s side by blaming west<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2023\/aug\/23\/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-drones-downed-moscow\">Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vladimir Putin has defended Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and sought to rally leaders of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/21\/brics-looks-to-expand-bloc-south-africa-summit-divisions-key-members-india\">Brics nations meeting in South Africa<\/a> to the Kremlin\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/aug\/22\/putin-brics-summit-south-africa-trade\">prerecorded video message aired on Tuesday<\/a> to the leaders of Brazil, India, China and South Africa, Putin repeated his earlier unfounded claims that the west was responsible for the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/23\/putin-defend-russian-invasion-ukraine-brics-summit-south-africa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president seeks to rally leaders meeting in South Africa to Moscow\u2019s side by blaming westRussia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updatesVladimir Putin has defended Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and sought to rally leaders of the Brics nations meeting i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3503,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[452,2974,50,1609,62,2877,433,419,532,930,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil","category-brics","category-china","category-cyril-ramaphosa","category-india","category-luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva","category-narendra-modi","category-russia","category-south-africa","category-ukraine","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57790,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57789\/revisions\/57790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}