The Kremlin accused NATO members this Thursday of opening a new phase of tension in their antagonism with Russia by encourage Ukraine to use Western weapons against targets in Russian territory.
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According to Peskov, The Atlantic Alliance incites Ukraine “by all possible means to continue this senseless war”.
“All of this will inevitably have its consequences and, as a final result, will cause great damage to the interests of those countries that decided to escalate tensions,” he warned.
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“These representatives of the NATO countries, especially in Europe, especially in small countries, must be aware of what they are playing with. They must remember that, as a rule, these are states with small but densely populated territories,” he said. Putin.
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The North American Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, assured in Moldova this Wednesday, in response to that accusation, that The United States had not encouraged Ukrainian attacks against Russian territory.
“We have not encouraged or facilitated attacks outside Ukraine. But (…) Ukraine has to make its own decisions about the best and most effective way to defend itself,” said the head of US diplomacy.
The United Kingdom recently authorized Ukraine to hit enemy territory with its weapons and France seems to have supported this position, but, despite the insistence of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, The United States, Germany and most of kyiv’s allies have not yet allowed it.
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In recent weeks, Ukraine has pressured its supporters, starting with the United States, to allow it to use the long-range weapons they have supplied to target targets inside Russia.
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Europe, on alert against possible sabotage and fires
The incidents include a fire at an Ikea store facility in Vilnius, Lithuania, this month, as well as a recent arson attack in east London.
Although there is no evidence of coordination between these cases, security services estimate that they could be part of a systematic attempt by Moscow to destabilize the West for its support of Ukraine, the newspaper adds.
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These incidents have been raised at a summit of foreign and defense ministers in Brussels this week, at which Dutch, Estonian and Lithuanian security officials warned of national vulnerabilities.
A minister, who asked not to be identified, said they were deeply concerned about sabotage organized, financed and carried out by Russian representatives, indicates ‘Guardian‘.
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