““Apart from nuclear blackmail, the Russian Federation no longer has anything, no other tools to intimidate the world,” Andriy Yermak said.”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Apart from nuclear blackmail, the Russian Federation has nothing, no other tools to intimidate the world. These tools will not work,” wrote the head of the Office of the President Andriy Yermak.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on September 25 that Russia plans to consider aggression by any non-nuclear state, but with the participation or support of a nuclear state, as a joint attack. Also, according to him, Moscow will consider the possibility of using nuclear weapons upon receiving “reliable information about the massive launch of air and space attack means.” These are strategic and tactical aircraft, cruise missiles, drones, hypersonic and other aircraft.
This statement was made against the background of Kyiv’s efforts to obtain permission from its Western partners to strike with their weapons on the territory of the Russian Federation.
On the eve of his visit to the United States, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that Ukraine needs “full range capability”, hinting at the need to lift restrictions on the use of Western weapons. He also said that the next week (the week of his visit to the USA) could become “in many ways decisive” in order to stop Russian aggression.
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On September 17, The Times wrote that Great Britain “will not act alone” in the matter of granting Ukraine permission to strike targets in Russia with long-range weapons.
The British government believes that American guidance systems are crucial to hitting targets with long-range missiles. London believes the U.S. is likely to authorize the strikes at the UN General Assembly session, which opens on September 10, although President Joe Biden’s administration is divided on this.
On September 16, the spokesman of the US State Department, Matthew Miller, in response to the journalists’ question whether the decision to strike long-range American weapons against targets in Russia had been made, replied that he had “no announcements” about changes in the White House’s policy on this issue.