Comments come after Antony Blinken hints US will lift restrictions on Kyiv’s use of weapons inside Russia

Vladimir Putin has said that a western move to let Kyiv use longer-range weapons against targets inside Russia would mean Nato would be “at war” with Moscow.

Putin spoke as US and UK top diplomats discussed easing rules on firing western weapons into Russia, which Kyiv has been pressing for, more than two and a half years into Moscow’s offensive.

“This would in a significant way change the very nature of the conflict,” Putin told a state television reporter.

“It would mean that Nato countries, the US, European countries, are at war with Russia,” he added. “If that’s the case, then taking into account the change of nature of the conflict, we will take the appropriate decisions based on the threats that we will face.”

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  • InvertedParallax@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    NATO: staying in Ukraine would put Russia ‘at war’ with NATO.

    Considering your army can’t take Ukraine, this really a fight you want to pick?

    God, it really is the Russian religion that they’re the only strong ones and everyone else is just so spoiled and weak, as your oligarchs tell you, from their mega yachts.

      • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        Russian cultural paranoia.

        They cannot consider themselves safe unless they have a ‘perimeter’ around Russia.

        The thing is: that needed perimeter is always growing, eventually your country becomes part of it, ask Poland and later east Germany, Afghanistan, and eventually, your country.