Moscow has warned that Washington’s connivance with Kyiv could aggravate the war which is risking “full-scale conflict” between Russia and the West.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov warned that Kyiv’s “far reaching plans” at the root cause of the ongoing crisis.
Ryabkov said, “It has been repeatedly said that Washington’s policy of connivance with Kiev’s most destructive, far-reaching plans and fantasies is by and large the root cause this acute crisis, fraught with high risks and the possibility of sliding into a full-scale conflict between Russia and the historic West.”
The Biden administration and the Pentagon have told Ukraine there is risk of escalation between the US and Russia over using American supplied long-range missiles for deep strikes inside the Russian Federation.
Ryabkov said that strikes deep inside Russia will not change the Kremlin’s assessment of the war, which comes as Volodymyr Zelensky believes such strikes could be the start of ending the war.
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“We need not some signals, but real evidence that there is an understanding of the futility of unconditional support for the minions in Kiev, and of the dangers that are exacerbated in a situation where this policy is not revised,” Ryabkov stated.
The new NATO secretary general Mark Rutte has told Kyiv they have the right “to strike legitimate” military targets deep inside Russia to prevent further loss of civilian life in Ukraine.
Rutte said that under international law the right defend their country from Russian attacks “does not end at the border.”
This will no doubt be met with a furious response from Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin who have warned over the past few days that such an attack will result in a nuclear escalation.
Rutte said, “Let’s not forget Ukraine is fighting a war of self-defence, and that means that Ukraine has the right to defend itself. And as we know, international law, and according to international law, this right does not end at the border.
“So that means that supporting Ukraine’s right to self-defence means that it is also possible for them to strike legitimate targets on the aggressor territory.
“At the end, it’s up to each Ally to determine its support for Ukraine.”
The Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko issued a grave warning that Minsk and Moscow will use “nuclear arms” in the event of an attack on the republic, meaning Belarus or Russia.
Putin has now tweaked Russia’s nuclear doctrine, so any long-range attacks by Ukraine on the Russian Federation by using “aerospace weapons, including aircraft missiles and UAVs” is now “the basis for the use of nuclear weapons.”
The deputy head of the National Security Council Dmitry Medvedev also warned that any attack on Russia using any type of weapon with the support or participation if a nuclear-weapon country “will be considered a joint-attack.”
Medvedev who is Putin’s right-hand man warned, “A massive launch and crossing of our border with enemy aerospace weapons, including aircraft, missiles and UAVs, can under certain conditions become the basis for the use of nuclear weapons.
“Aggression against Russia by a non-nuclear-weapon state, but with the support or participation of a nuclear-weapon country, will be considered a joint attack.”
