'If someone from the outside tries to intervene in Ukraine then our response will be lightning fast,” Putin said. “We have all the weapons we need for this”
The Russian President issued a chilling warning to legislators in a speech in St Petersburg threatening ‘lightning fast’ retaliatory strikes.
He said the West had been trying to back Russia into a corner and then imposing heavy sanctions when Russia resisted. The move represents a dramatic escalation of the conflict that is increasingly becoming a wider battle with the West. The Russian military claimed on Wednesday that its missiles hit a batch of weapons that the US and European nations delivered to Ukraine.
Just across the border in Russia, an ammunition depot in the Belgorod region was burning early on Wednesday after several explosions were heard, governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on the messaging app Telegram. "Gazprom's move to completely shut off gas supplies to Poland is yet another sign of Russia's politicization of existing agreements & will only accelerate European efforts to move away from Russian energy supplies," he wrote.
Poland, a historical rival of Russia, has been a major gateway for the delivery of weapons to Ukraine and confirmed this week that it is sending the country tanks.
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