Moscow: President Vladimir Putin has warned the countries that allow Ukraine to use their weapons to target Russian territory, according to reports. He said Moscow was entitled to strike military targets belonging to those countries, reported the CNN.
Putin’s warning comes at a time when Russia struck the Ukrainian city of Dnipro with a new medium-range ballistic missile that carried multiple warheads.
According to experts, this attack was perhaps the first time that such a weapon had been used in combat.
In a televised address—whose footage has gone viral on social media—Putin reportedly said the regional conflict had taken on ‘a global nature’ after Ukraine targeted Russia’s Kursk and Bryansk regions this week with missiles made in the US, UK and France.
“…..Since this moment, as we have underscored repeatedly, the conflict in Ukraine, provoked by the West, has obtained elements of global nature,” he said on Thursday.
Putin also stressed that Russia had 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 US,” Putin reportedly said.
He also confirmed that Russia had successfully tested a new medium-range ballistic missile Oreshnik in response to enemy actions.
“In response to the use of American and British long-range weapons, on November 21 of this year, the Russian armed forces launched a combined strike on one of the facilities of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine,” he added.
