MOSCOW: Sunday, President Vladimir Putin said that the defense ministry of Russia was working on different ways to respond in the event that the United States and its Nato allies assist Ukraine in using long-range Western missiles to strike deeply into Russia.
Russian officials claim that the war is now entering its most dangerous phase. The war in Ukraine, which has been going on for two and a half years, has sparked the largest confrontation between Russia and the West since the height of the Cold War.
Russia has been motioning toward the US and its partners for quite a long time that assuming that they allow to Ukraine to strike profound into Russian region with Western-provided rockets, then, at that point, Moscow will think of it as a significant heightening.
On September 12, Putin stated that Western approval for such a move would require the involvement of Nato military infrastructure and personnel in the targeting and firing of the missiles, which would require “the direct involvement of Nato countries, the United States and European countries in the war in Ukraine.”
Putin stated that it was too early to predict exactly how Russia would respond to such an action, but that Moscow would need to respond appropriately and that various options were being considered.
Putin stated to Pavel Zarubin, the top Kremlin reporter for Russian state television, “The Russian defense ministry is thinking about how to respond to the possible long-range strikes on Russian territory, it will offer a range of responses.”
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the president of Ukraine, has been pleading with the West to allow Kyiv to fire Western missiles deep into Russia as Russia advances in eastern Ukraine at the fastest rate since the beginning of the invasion.
After eight years of fighting in eastern Ukraine, Putin ordered thousands of troops into Ukraine in 2022. He portrays the conflict as a battle between Russia and the declining West, which he claims ignored Russia’s interests after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
Although the United States of America has not publicly stated whether or not it will allow Ukraine to strike Russia, some US officials are seriously skeptical that doing so would significantly alter the course of the conflict. With long-range drones, Ukrainian forces already regularly strike deep into Russia.
Ukraine and its Western allies claim that Putin started a war against its smaller neighbor in the style of an imperial war. They have also said on multiple occasions that if Russia wins the war, autocratic nations around the world will be encouraged.
In an effort, according to the Kremlin, to signal Russia’s concern regarding Western discussions regarding missile strikes from Ukraine, Putin altered Russia’s nuclear doctrine just weeks before the US presidential election. Putin told Zarubin, when asked if the West had heeded Russia’s warnings: I hope they’ve listened. Because, of course, we will also have to decide things for ourselves.
The question is really “whether they will allow themselves to strike deep into Russian territory or not,” as Putin stated that only Nato officers would be able to fire such weapons into Russia and that they would need to target the weapons using Western satellite data. That is the inquiry.
According to US officials, the US is not attempting to escalate the conflict. It is unclear how a new US president will approach the war: Both Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and former US President Donald Trump have stated that they will continue to support Ukraine.
