A senior Russian official has warned that if Ukrainian forces use long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles inside Russia non-nuclear weapons could be used.
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia who is also the third President of Russia has hit out in anger over Ukraine using missiles inside the Russian Federation.
Medvedev said they have ground to use nuclear weapons amid Ukraine’s incursion into the Kursk region.
However, Medvedev said Russia could use their new technologies and turn the Ukrainian capital into a “giant melted spot” then Kyiv and the West make their patience run out.
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Last week Medvedev hit out at the British Foreign Secretary after David Lammy said the UK will provide Ukraine with “100-years of support.”
Medvedev said that Lammy “is lying” as the “so called Ukraine will not last a quarter of that time.”
He then warned, “The island called Britain is likely to sink in the next few years.
“Our hypersonic missiles will help if necessary.”
Kyiv has been granted permission to strike military targets deep inside Russia according to the Guardian newspaper’s own sources.
The Guardian’s sources have said the US and UK have granted permission to use long-range missiles inside the Russian Federation, however the publication states this has not officially been announced, RB-Ukraine reports.
The Guardian reports as cited by RBC-Ukraine, “Deploying the missiles, western officials add, should be part of a wider plan designed to try to bring about an end to the full-scale war.”
On Friday the US President Joe Biden held a meeting with the British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
Biden said on Friday afternoon that Ukraine using Storm Shadow cruise missiles to destroy targets inside Russia does not amount to NATO being at war with Moscow, despite Vladimir Putin’s threats of “all-out war.”
Biden said, “I do not think much about Vladimir Putin,” the Guardian reports.
Vladimir Putin has drawn a new “red line” and if the West crosses it, which they most likely will then this will be considered a “direct participation” of NATO in the war.
The Kremlin leader said, “It would substantially change the very essence, the nature of the conflict.
“This will mean that NATO countries, the USA and European states, are fighting with Russia.”
Putin told Russian state television, “So this is not a question of allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons or not.
“It is a question of deciding whether or not NATO countries are directly involved in a military conflict.
“This will be their direct participation, and this, of course, will significantly change the very essence – the very nature – of the conflict.”
