Firefighters work in a destroyed apartment building after a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine (Picture: AP)<\/p>\n
Russia has mocked Nato\u2019s 5% increase in defence spending, branding it \u2018political masochism\u2019.<\/p>\n
Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said: \u2018The growth of military spending in Nato to 5% does not indicate any consequences for Russian policy.\u2019<\/p>\n
He added: \u2018They want to push Russia to the backwaters of world politics and surround it with Nato bases… Firefighters work in a destroyed apartment building after a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine (Picture:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167973-russia-mocks-nato-military-spend-calling-it-political-masochism.jpg",1200,630,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167973-russia-mocks-nato-military-spend-calling-it-political-masochism-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167973-russia-mocks-nato-military-spend-calling-it-political-masochism-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167973-russia-mocks-nato-military-spend-calling-it-political-masochism-768x403.jpg",640,336,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167973-russia-mocks-nato-military-spend-calling-it-political-masochism-1024x538.jpg",640,336,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167973-russia-mocks-nato-military-spend-calling-it-political-masochism.jpg",1200,630,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167973-russia-mocks-nato-military-spend-calling-it-political-masochism.jpg",1200,630,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167973-russia-mocks-nato-military-spend-calling-it-political-masochism-1024x538.jpg",1024,538,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167973-russia-mocks-nato-military-spend-calling-it-political-masochism-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167973-russia-mocks-nato-military-spend-calling-it-political-masochism-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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