{"id":46090,"date":"2026-04-15T13:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=46090"},"modified":"2026-04-16T10:20:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:20:54","slug":"the-kremlin-prepares-legal-justification-for-new-military-interventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/the-kremlin-prepares-legal-justification-for-new-military-interventions\/","title":{"rendered":"The kremlin prepares legal justification for new military interventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The russian state duma has passed in the first reading a bill expanding the grounds for military intervention. The document would allow vladimir putin to deploy troops to other countries to \u201cprotect russians\u201d allegedly persecuted by foreign courts or tribunals.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f The relevant committee of the state duma stated that the army is needed to \u201ccounter russophobia\u201d and \u201cprotect russian organizations from encroachments.\u201d In practice, this refers to arrests of russian state assets and the imposition of sanctions. In effect, putin would receive a carte blanche to deploy troops to any country whose justice system moscow deems \u201cunfriendly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f The bill was approved without any remarks, demonstrating the full consolidation of the russian regime around the idea of armed interference in the affairs of sovereign states under fabricated legal pretexts.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative is further proof that russian aggression will not be limited to Ukraine. moscow is systematically building a legislative framework that effectively serves as a \u201clegal justification\u201d for future military invasions.<\/p>\n<p>The kremlin is moving toward an open strategy of global coercion. Strengthening collective security and reinforcing NATO\u2019s eastern flank remain the only effective responses to the threat posed by russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The russian state duma has passed in the first reading a bill expanding the grounds for military intervention. The document would allow vladimir putin to deploy troops to other countries to \u201cprotect russians\u201d allegedly persecuted by foreign courts or tribunals. \u25ab\ufe0f The relevant committee of the state duma stated that the army is needed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}