The spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, stated this Thursday (27) that the country could carry out attacks against UK targets “in Ukraine and beyond”.
The statement comes in response to the promise that British Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, made to Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenski, last Monday (24), saying that he could allow Kiev access to confidential technology for the production of long-range missiles.
“The response to Ukrainian attacks with British weapons against Russian territory can achieve any military objective with British equipment in Ukraine and beyond,” countered Zakharova.
According to the Russian spokesperson, London would be “playing with fire”, warning that those guilty of “war crimes” committed against their country “will be punished in a proportionate manner”.
“We propose to the British leaders, once again, to carefully analyze the situation and immediately renounce, in the most decisive and unequivocal way, the hostile and aggressive line, which can only prolong the agony of the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev and create the risk of taking the conflict to a new level,” he said.
The promise of military aid was made by Burnham during an official visit to Kiev to celebrate Ukrainian independence day. It consists of providing engineering blueprints for building a Ukrainian version of the Storm Shadow, missiles with a range of more than 250 kilometers.
Obtaining the technology would increase Kiev’s offensive capacity, enabling attacks on more strategic infrastructures on Russian territory. However, the reinforcement, which arrives at a complex time in the war for Ukraine, would only be ready for use next year.
New attacks
Tensions involving Moscow, Kiev and London come at a time of escalating offensives. In the early hours of Thursday, a new wave of missile and drone attacks from Russia hit the capital and other Ukrainian cities.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the offensive used two cruise missiles and 258 drones, of which almost 90% were shot down.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the targets involved Ukrainian military industry facilities, oil refineries, metallurgical plants, ports and other logistics centers.
CIA in Moscow: ‘Nothing unusual’
Amid the war escalation, CIA director John Ratcliffe paid a visit to Moscow on Tuesday (25). The US intelligence chief met with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).
According to Naryshkin, it was a “work meeting” that is part of the duties of both positions. “There was nothing unusual,” he said.
The importance of the meeting had already been diminished by Donald Trump, when he said that, despite wanting “an end to the war” in Ukraine, the meeting “was semi-routine”.
According to the American newspaper Wall Street Journal and the broadcaster CBSone of Ratcliffe’s objectives in Moscow would be to dissuade Russia from attacking any NATO member country.
The Kremlin, in turn, did not comment on the points discussed and confirms that the meeting was routine.
Source: www.brasildefato.com.br
