Published on November 18, 2024 at 5:04 p.m. / Modified on November 18, 2024 at 5:05 p.m.
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According to an American official, Washington has just authorized Ukraine to strike Russian territory with long-range missiles supplied by the United States.
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In Moscow, officials recalled the warnings issued by Vladimir Putin: this green light will be considered an act of war by NATO.
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On social networks or on television, between minimization and fear, commentators wonder where these Ukrainian strikes could land.
After boasting about its massive airstrike this weekend – supposed to bring Ukraine back to the “ice age” this winter, according to propagandists – Vladimir Putin’s Russia now fears a backlash. The green light given, according to the American press, by the Joe Biden administration to kyiv to use its long-range missiles provided by the West to strike Russia in depth, is on everyone’s lips on Monday. Some bravado assert that “this will change nothing” while others speak openly of a turning point in this war which has now lasted for more than two and a half years.
On the official side, the spokesperson for Russian diplomacy, Maria Zakharova, and then that of the Kremlin limited themselves to recalling Vladimir Putin’s warnings that such a green light would be considered by Moscow as direct proof that NATO is now in war against Russia. “If this is the case, we will take the necessary decisions,” he warned at the beginning of September, without giving further details. “This is an unprecedented measure. This is a very big step towards the start of the Third World War,” declared Vladimir Djabarov, vice-chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament, on November 18. . But just like Maria Zakharova and Dmitri Peskov, this former officer of the Soviet and then Russian secret services, traditionally plays the role of second knives whose mission is to occupy the ground before the declarations of the master of the Kremlin who, this time, has chose not to speak out.
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