He added that Moscow It already has formal grounds to use nuclear weapons since the incursion. Ukraine In the Kursk region of Russia, but it could instead use its new high-tech weapons to turn Kiev into a “giant molten mass” when its patience runs out.
TASS news agency quoted the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister as saying: Sergei RyabkovHe said on Saturday that Moscow knows that the West has made a decision on whether to allow Ukraine to attack Russia with long-range missiles and has informed Kiev of this.
Ryabkov did not elaborate on the nature of the decision he was referring to, but said that the failure of Moscow’s verbal warnings to the West against further escalation would force Russia to switch to sending signals in different ways.
For his part, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview published Saturday that the alliance could have done more to arm Ukraine in an attempt to prevent a Russian attack in 2022.
“We are now providing military supplies for war,” Stoltenberg, who is leaving his post next month, told the German weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAS). “Back then, we could have provided military supplies to prevent war.”
Stoltenberg pointed to NATO’s reluctance to provide the weapons requested by Kiev before the large-scale Russian attack for fear of escalating tensions with Russia.