In our last post, we heard from former Putin adviser Sergey Markov threatening the US for allowing Ukraine to fire its long-range missiles into Russia.
Now, Ukrainian MP Andrii Osadchuk tells Sky News’ The World they have heard this Russian propaganda before.
“Threatening the outside world is probably the most advanced skill of Kremlin.”
He recalls threats were made when Ukrainian allies decided to supply multiple-rocket launchers in the summer of 2022, when they supplied battle tanks in February 2023, and when they supplied F-16 fighter jets this year.
“They [Russia] are singing the same song about long-range missiles.”
But these are not even long-range missiles, he says, firing only 186 miles, and Ukraine has already been using the British Storm Shadow rockets against occupied Crimea dozens of times, which Russia treats as Russian territory.
“We are sick of the word escalation. It is very much a delayed decision,” says Mr Osadchuk, adding it should have been made two years ago.
“It was extremely unfair that for 1,000 days, we were in an extremely asymmetric situation.”
Russia could attack for several thousand kilometres, while Ukraine could only respond within 100, he says.
“We are under daily attack of Russian Federation. Daily we are losing civilians, daily we are losing military personnel.”
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