{"id":847,"date":"2025-06-12T23:12:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T23:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/?p=847"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:59:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:59:31","slug":"ukraine-complains-about-global-russia-day-congratulations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/ukraine-complains-about-global-russia-day-congratulations-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine complains about global Russia Day congratulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kiev\u2019s top diplomat has said Moscow should not be \u201crewarded\u201d on the world stage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrey Sibiga has criticized countries that sent congratulatory messages to Russia for Russia Day, a public holiday celebrated on June 12. He expressed his displeasure after Secretary of State Marco Rubio extended greetings on behalf of the US.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"714\" data-end=\"1035\"><em>\u201cAs a minister of a country at war, I found it especially unpleasant to read this morning that some countries were publicly congratulating Russia on its national holiday,\u201d<\/em> Sibiga said at the Weimar+ summit in Rome on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"714\" data-end=\"1035\"><em>\u201cThere can be no reward for an aggressor state. I have a moral right to say this,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1037\" data-end=\"1391\">In a statement published on the State Department\u2019s website, Rubio said the US <em>\u201cremains committed to supporting the Russian people as they continue to build on their aspirations for a brighter future.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1037\" data-end=\"1391\">He reaffirmed that Washington is seeking <em>\u201cconstructive engagement with the Russian Federation to bring about a durable peace between Russia and Ukraine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/684a82402030272f2d4b5dab.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/618999-rubio-congratulations-russia-national-day\/\">Rubio sends congratulations on Russia Day<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1393\" data-end=\"1814\">Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the message as <em>\u201cpositive news,\u201d<\/em> noting a shift from the more hostile policies of former President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1393\" data-end=\"1814\">The US suspended nearly all contact with Russia in 2022 following the outbreak of the Ukraine conflict and imposed sweeping sanctions on Moscow. Under President Donald Trump, however, the two sides resumed direct negotiations and agreed to gradually normalize relations.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1816\" data-end=\"2125\">Countries including India, Oman, and Kazakhstan also issued congratulatory statements on Russia Day. <em>\u201cOur special and privileged strategic partnership continues to serve the interests of our peoples,\u201d<\/em> Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said in a message to his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiev\u2019s top diplomat has said Moscow should not be \u201crewarded\u201d on the world stage Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrey Sibiga has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}