The Russian authorities intend to respond to David Cameron’s statements.
On May 2, the British Foreign Minister justified in an interview with Reuters Ukraine’s right to strike Russian territory with weapons supplied by the United Kingdom.
“Ukraine has a right to this. Just as Russia is hitting Ukraine, it is completely understandable that Ukraine feels the need to defend itself.”declared former Prime Minister David Cameron.
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Comments that Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov described as an escalation.
This Monday, during a meeting with the British Ambassador to Moscow Nigel Casey, the Russian Foreign Ministry expressed Moscow’s strong protests after David Cameron’s statements on Kyiv’s right to strike Russia with British weapons, like Storm Shadow cruise missiles, reports Russian media Kommersant.
Response to strikes with British weapons
“Nigel Casey has been warned that the response to Ukrainian strikes using British weapons on Russian territory could be to strike any British military installations and equipment on the territory of Ukraine and beyond”specifies the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press release.
This Monday, May 6, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that, on the orders of Vladimir Putin, the General Staff of the Russian Army had begun preparations for holding exercises with strategic nuclear weapons in the near future .
The Kremlin declared that these exercises were motivated, among other things, by the declarations of Mr. Cameron but also those of Emmanuel Macron on sending NATO troops to Ukraine.
