The Russian President, Vladimir Putinwarned this Wednesday that Russia will respond with a “lightning” attack to any strategic interference in what is happening in Ukrainethe scene of a Russian military campaign for two months.
“If someone, I repeat, is about to interfere in ongoing events and creates unacceptable strategic threats to RussiaThey should know that our response attacks will be lightning, fast,” Putin said during an intervention before the Council of Parliamentarians in Saint Petersburg.
Putin stressed that Russia It has “all the instruments for it”, in reference to the hypersonic weaponry.
Armament “of which no one can brag now. And we are not going to brag. We will use them if necessary. And I want everyone to know it,” he stressed.
“All decisions in this regard have already been taken,” he added.
He insists on accusations against the West
The head of the Kremlin again accused the West of converting Ukraine in an “anti-Russia” and to push kyiv to confront its neighbor to the north; attack the annexed Crimean peninsula and the Donbas region; possess nuclear weapons and open chemical and biological laboratories.
“That is why our reaction to these cynical plans was correct and timely,” he said, referring to the “special military operation.”
He guaranteed that all the objectives set in the current military campaign will be met, which includes the security of the Russians and the inhabitants of the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, whose independence has been recognized by Moscow.
“We have avoided conflict”
The Russian soldiers “have prevented the real danger that was already hanging over our homeland (…), avoiding a conflict of magnitude that would have developed in our territory, but already according to a foreign script,” he explained.
This same week the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, warned that the danger of a nuclear war “is serious, it is real, it should not be underestimated”.
Recently, Russia conducted a test launch with the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile which, according to Putin, “is capable of overcoming all modern means of missile defense” and “has no analogues in the world.”
(With information from EFE)