Russia has the right to use weapons against military facilities of countries that attack its territory.

During a televised address on Thursday, President Vladimir Putin stated that the Ukraine conflict has obtained features of a global conflict after attacks by Western missiles on Kursk and Bryansk regions.

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“Since this moment, as we have underscored repeatedly, the conflict in Ukraine, provoked by the West, has obtained elements of global nature,” he said, vowing that Russia will respond decisively in case of escalation in Ukraine.

He mentioned that Russia has the right to use weapons against the military facilities of the countries that use their weapons against Russia. “I would like to stress once again that it is not Russia that is destroying the international security system, but the United States,” Putin stressed, confirming that Russia has successfully tested a new medium-range ballistic missile Oreshnik in response to enemy actions.

‘We have always preferred, and still prefer to resolve our disagreements using peaceful means but we are prepared for any scenario, and if anyone has any doubts, they shouldn’t. There will always be a response,” the Russian leader pointed out.

On Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia had clearly demonstrated its ability to respond to the use of long-range Western weapons against its territory by launching a hypersonic ballistic missile the day before.

He added that the “foolish” actions of the West in supplying arms to kyiv and participating in these Ukrainian attacks with American and British missiles against the border regions of Bryansk and Kursk “cannot go unchallenged by Russia.”

Peskov also recalled that President Putin had precisely drawn “the outline of future responses” in case Russian concerns “are not taken into account.”

The Kremlin spokesman admitted that Russia would have liked Washington to have listened to reason when Putin said in September that the use of long-range missiles against Russia would mean that NATO and the US “are at war with Russia.”

However, he considered that Putin’s televised intervention was “so complete” that it leaves no room for doubt about Russia’s position on the matter and expressed his confidence that the US will receive the message.

In turn, Peskov assured that, as it was not an intercontinental missile, Russia was not obliged to report the launch, although the United States received an automatic notification from the Nuclear Risk Reduction Centre.

teleSUR/ JF Source: EFE – Xinhua

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