{"id":73797,"date":"2025-09-02T16:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/sep\/02\/russia-ukraine-war-putin-china-visit-europe-live-news-updates"},"modified":"2025-09-03T00:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:28:22","slug":"europe-live-us-treasury-secretary-indicates-growing-frustration-with-putin-over-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73797","title":{"rendered":"Putin claims he never opposed EU membership for Ukraine but draws line at Nato \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian leader, continuing China visit, is joined by Slovakia\u2019s Robert Fico. This live blog is closed<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, we have had an update from Ukraine where <strong>a man accused of murdering a pro-western Ukrainian politician in the city of Lviv last weekend admitted that he carried out the killing but denied working for Russia<\/strong>, describing the attack as \u201cpersonal revenge,\u201d AFP reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is <strong>my personal revenge on the Ukrainian authorities,<\/strong>\u201d the suspect told reporters in a video published by Ukrainian media outlets, denying he worked directly with Russian special services.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/sep\/02\/russia-ukraine-war-putin-china-visit-europe-live-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian leader, continuing China visit, is joined by Slovakia\u2019s Robert Fico. This live blog is closedIn the meantime, we have had an update from Ukraine where a man accused of murdering a pro-western Ukrainian politician in the city of Lviv last weeken&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4686,"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":[50,221,62,419,930,47,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-europe","category-india","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-us-news","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73797","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\/4686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73823,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73797\/revisions\/73823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}