Putin warns that permitting Ukraine to carry out long-range attacks on Russian territory with Western weapons would mean war with NATO. How are the US, the EU, and Britain reacting?

Allowing Ukraine to strike with long-range Western weapons on the Russian territory will mean that the US and NATO countries are directly participating in the war with the Russian Federation, said Russian President Putin.

According to him, Ukrainian troops cannot strike with such weapons without intelligence data from Western satellites, which can only be provided by the US and NATO countries. Flight coordination for long-range missile systems are carried out only by military specialists from the countries that produce these weapons.

“Therefore, it is a matter of deciding whether NATO countries take a direct part in the military conflict,” he added.

The White House called such rhetoric “dangerous, but not new.” The EU stated that such intimidation by Putin would not change the EU’s position regarding support for Ukraine.

The head of the British government, Keir Starmer, reminded observers that it was Putin who started the war in Ukraine and who can also end it at any moment, while Ukraine has the right to self-defense.