In a televised address, Vladimir Putin declared this Thursday that Russia does not rule out striking countries whose weapons are used by kyiv against its territory. The Russian leader said that the conflict with Ukraine has taken on “a global character.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced this Thursday, November 21 that his country does not rule out striking countries supplying weapons used by Ukraine against Russian territory.
“We consider ourselves within our rights to use our weapons against the military installations of countries that allow the use of their weapons against our installations,” the Russian leader said.
“And in the event of an escalation of aggressive actions, we will respond just as strongly,” he continued, in a surprise speech to the nation.
Russia is “ready” for all scenarios
The Russian leader also estimated that the conflict, which has lasted for more than 1,000 days, has taken on a “global character” with Western missile strikes.
This statement comes a few days after Washington's green light for kyiv's use of American long-range missiles on Russian soil. Ukrainian forces then struck Russia on its territory with American ATACMS and British Storm Shadow missiles. Vladimir Putin said that “Ukrainian fire against Russia with Western missiles has failed.”
In what constitutes “a response to American plans to produce and deploy medium- and short-range missiles”, Vladimir Putin announced that the Russian army struck Ukraine with a new medium-range ballistic missile, called “Orechnik “. Earlier in the day, kyiv accused Russia of having fired an intercontinental missile, a first in the conflict.
In this intervention which lasted less than ten minutes, the tenant of the Kremlin added that Russia was “ready” for all scenarios in the conflict with the West and Ukraine.
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