The European Union (EU) He said on Friday that will not change its stance of support for Ukraine despite comments by Russian President Vladimir Putinthat Ukraine’s use of longer-range weapons against targets inside Russia would mean going to war with NATO.
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“Putin’s erroneous comments will not change our position as long as his illegal aggression against Ukraine continues,” he said during the daily press conference of the European Commission Community spokesman Peter Stano.
The spokesman said that Putin “He constantly makes many wrong comments, and the fact is that he started the war against Ukraine and, by doing so, he has also attacked modern European and Western democracies.”
He launched a war against all of us, and Ukraine is brave enough to fight this war with its people, with its blood and suffering, and pays the price, the highest price.
For this reason, he considered that Putin “It is not just attacking Ukraine; it is attacking the values, the principles that we believe in. It is attacking international law, the rules-based world order, it is violating the UN Charter.”
In this regard, the spokesman said that the Russian president “launched a war against all of us, and Ukraine is brave enough to fight this war with its people, with its blood and suffering, pay the price, the highest price,” he noted.
“Of course, nothing he (Putin) says will change our positions as long as he continues this illegal war of aggression against the Ukrainian people; We will continue to support Ukraine, including with military support,” Stano added.
As regards the possibility that countries donating weapons to Ukraine will lift restrictions so that kyiv can The spokesman recalled that this is a decision that each country must make individually.
“There is no broad EU position on this,” he said, although he cited the position of the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, Josep Borrell, as “very clear”: The head of EU diplomacy has requested freedom for Ukraine to exercise legitimate defence of its territory by attacking targets located inside Russia.
War with NATO? Putin’s red lines
And the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has set a new red line: the use of long-range missiles. against its territory from Ukraine, a violation of which, according to the Kremlin, would mean war with NATO.
“Russia is being patient. After all, it is obvious that a nuclear response is an extremely complex decision with irreversible consequences (…) but all patience has a limit,” wrote Dmitry Medvedev, former president and number two on the Russian Security Council, on his Telegram channel.
This will mean that NATO countries, the US and European countries are at war with Russia.
Putin has been repeating for months that kyiv does not have the technical capacity to launch long-range missiles against targets on Russian territory.so to do so it needs intelligence data from Western satellites, whose specialists are the ones who determine the flight missions.
According to that argument, The US and UK leaders discussed the issue in Washington on Friday.are not considering giving the green light to kyiv, but are instead considering participating “directly” in the conflict.
“This will mean that NATO countries, the US and European countries are at war with Russia,” Putin warned on state television in St. Petersburg on Thursday.
US President Joe Biden He postponed the decision on Friday, despite the insistence of his Ukrainian colleague, Volodymyr Zelensky, but the nuclear challenge is on the table.
“They joke about our red lines there. They must not joke about them. They know perfectly well where they are going,” he said. Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister.
He stressed that the Western powers “have a genetic conviction that no one will touch them” and described it as “dangerous” that the US and its allies are abandoning “mutual deterrence,” the guarantee of strategic stability.
Before long-range missiles, The Kremlin has already drawn red lines such as the attacks on Crimea; the bridge that links the annexed peninsula to the mainland; the border regions and areas far from the front, such as Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Instead, the Ukrainians attacked Crimea, struck deep Russia with drones – even reaching the Kremlin – and are currently involved in the Kursk region. the first border incursion since the Nazis invaded the USSR in 1941.
However, according to Russian and Western analysts and bloggers, Putin did not take any drastic decisions and limited himself to increasing the number of bombings.
Putin, who has said that if the West does not respect his red lines, he will do the same to them, was dissenting in the midst of the dispute. He then said that the military campaign itself is the biggest response, to which he added the attacks against the energy infrastructure of the neighboring country.
“And isn’t the special military operation itself a response to overstepping those lines?” he asked.
However, last May, he already threatened Europe with “serious consequences” if NATO countries allow the use of Western weapons against targets in Russia.
“These representatives of 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,” Putin said in Uzbekistan.
And he asked himself: “If such serious consequences are felt in Europe, how will the United States react? (…) Do they want a global conflict?”
Hawks like Medvedev go further than Putin. On Saturday, he stressed that “for example, in Kursk itself” there were already “formal conditions” for the use of nuclear weapons.
At the same time, he said that Western analysts who warn that Moscow could also resort to new-generation weapons are right. in reference, supposedly, to hypersonic weapons.
Therefore, we are prepared for everything and we will react in such a way that they will know what a comb is worth.
“And so, that’s it. A gigantic grey melted spot on the site of the mother of (all) Russian cities” (kyiv), he concluded at the end of his message, adding in English: “It’s impossible, but it happened.”
The Foreign Ministry believes that kyiv has already been given a free hand.
“Therefore, we are ready for anything and will react in such a way that they will know what a comb is worth,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Saturday.
While, The president of the Duma or Chamber of Deputies, Vyacheslav Volodin, assured that the consultations between Washington and London “They are nothing more than an attempt to camouflage and conceal their direct participation in military actions” and are only looking for an excuse to commit “an act of aggression with missiles against Russia.”
Along the same lines, Sergei Karaganov, A well-known political scientist close to Putin, asked this week a new nuclear doctrine that would increase the cases in which Moscow can resort to its strategic arsenal.
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