Reuters – Aug 27, 2024
Russia says the West was playing with fire by considering allowing Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with Western missiles and cautioned the United States on Tuesday that World War Three would not be confined to Europe.
Ukraine attacked Russia’s western Kursk region on Aug. 6 and has carved out a slice of territory in the biggest foreign attack on Russia since World War Two. President Vladimir Putin said there would be a worthy response from Russia to the attack.
Sergei Lavrov, who has served as Putin’s foreign minister for more than 20 years, said that the West was seeking to escalate the Ukraine war and was “asking for trouble” by considering Ukrainian requests to loosen curbs on using foreign-supplied weapons.
Since invading Ukraine in 2022, Putin has repeatedly warned of the risk of a much broader war involving the world’s biggest nuclear powers, though he has said Russia does not want a conflict with the US-led NATO alliance.
“We are now confirming once again that playing with fire – and they are like small children playing with matches – is a very dangerous thing for grown-up uncles and aunts who are entrusted with nuclear weapons in one or another Western country,” Lavrov told reporters in Moscow.
“Americans unequivocally associate conversations about Third World War as something that, God forbid, if it happens, will affect Europe exclusively,” Lavrov said.
Lavrov added that Russia was “clarifying” its nuclear doctrine.
Russia’s 2020 nuclear doctrine sets out when its president would consider using a nuclear weapon: broadly as a response to an attack using nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction or conventional weapons “when the very existence of the state is put under threat.”
RUSSIA’S RESPONSE
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said earlier this month that the assault on Russia’s Kursk region showed that Kremlin threats of retaliation were a bluff.
Zelenskiy said Ukraine, because of the restrictions imposed by allies, could not use the weapons at its disposal to hit some Russian military targets. He urged allies to be bolder in their decisions about how to help Kyiv in the war.
Russia has said that Western weaponry, including British tanks and US rocket systems, have been used by Ukraine in Kursk. Kyiv has confirmed using U.S. HIMARS missiles to take out bridges in Kursk.
Washington says it was not informed about Ukraine’s plans ahead of the surprise incursion into Kursk. The United States has also said it did not take any part in the operation.
Putin’s foreign intelligence chief, Sergei Naryshkin, said on Tuesday that Moscow did not believe Western assertions that it had nothing to do with the Kursk attack. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the involvement of the United States was “an obvious fact.”
he New York Times reported that the United States and Britain provided Ukraine with satellite imagery and other information about the Kursk region in the days after the Ukrainian attack.
The Times said that the intelligence was aimed at helping Ukraine keep better track of Russian reinforcements.
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Hindustan Times — Aug 27, 2024
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russia won the battle at kursk only because british traitors from cambridge forwarded them signals intell
so they could bomb everything before the battle started
the communists came round and killed the old and the young so their would be food for the fighters
the battle between the communist jews and the anglo saxon race was really lost in this battle
thanks to rothschilds apostles those cambridge homosexual lefties who altered the whole course of the war
Well, Kursk has been a Nazi folly, and all the British and Amerikan Nazis in Kursk are going to die.
Wtf is Russia doing? Every time the Russians or Putin draws a red line, the Nazis cross it, and Russia does nothing!?
I keep saying it, nuke Nazi UK, and no one in Naziland will lift a finger to defend the UK.
It’s like Israel. The US will defend Joolandia, upto a point, but doesn’t appear to have the balls, or stomach for the massive losses the US will take. So now we have many pundits suggesting Nazi Israel will go it alone and attack Iran.
Let me just say. Any sign that Israel are about to use nukes, and Israel will be nuked, and I’m sure the Russians and Chinese have made this clear to Nazi Amerika, and the US might nuke Israel themselves. They all know where these nukes are stored, if they even have them, which I doubt. So very easy to take out these sites, especially for Russia.
Bankrupt Nazi UK is not worth defending, if it means the US gets nuked.
While the US has total control over Trident 2, the Brits will almost certainly prepared planes to drop/fire nukes at Russia, and this ties in with what I’ve see in Snodownia, where F35’s are flying in packs of 4, instead of the usual pairs, and we also see big transporter aircraft flying low down the valley at sub 300ft, maybe even 250ft, and leads me to think this is for a daring attack on Russia, and Moscow.
The Brits have a fetish for long low flying bombing missions, and previously been prepared to send crews on suicide missions. Think of Russia as an invincible death star with a critical weak point, and that’s a nuke on Moscow, with no warning, or very little warning.
I’ve seen two seperate packs of 4 F35’s, just minutes apart down the same valley. This is specific mission training. This isn’t fettling your edge, this is a new specific blade move, and I think the target is Moscow.
More bluster and bravado from the Russians. As for the Americans saying they knew nothing of Ukraine’s plans, their intelligence gathering capability keeps them informed of any moves by the Ukraine military.
Russia will have to decide at some point that they are at TOTAL war with the West. Until then the situation will continue, but perhaps that is the plan.
Russian analyst Professor Gilbert Doctorow says he agrees with another commentator on Russian affairs, former colonel and now politician Frants Klintsevich. He suggests the US may be using deception to hint that its carrier fleets in the east Mediterranean are there ready to defend Israel from Iranian attacks, when in reality they may be there to launch jets which will make a nuclear strike on Russia.
whats this guy on about with natzis ?
is he talking of the last war ?
what tablets is he on ?
natzis natzis
he is either mental or a fecking idiot
@CJ
Interesting….
apart from the fact that those fckers – not to be confused with Fockers😉 – are always making a racket flying over Angelsey & thereabouts…. at least when I’ve been in the vicinity…
The F-35 targets are first the S-300-400-500 and next every other air defense so the bombers can fly in unhampered. That’s why the F-35 was created.
21st century tactics 101.