War in Ukraine: Russia threatens to increase territorial losses for Ukrainians

Step back to war which continues in Ukraine do not the Russians. Moscow warned that The delivery of longer-range weapons from the West to Kyiv will lead it to repel Ukrainian forces beyond the country’s borderssubstantially increasing the potential territorial losses for the Ukrainians.

The United States has ruled out sending its own forces or NATO forces to Ukrainebut Washington and Britain have agreed to supply precision-guided missile systems that have significantly longer range than the previous weapons they delivered.

Washington is supplying Ukraine with M142 high-mobility rocket launchers, also known as Himars, and Britain will supply M270 multi-launcher systems.

«The greater the range of systems that will be delivered, the more we will remove the Nazis “from the line from which threats to Russian-speakers and the Russian Federation may come,” said the Foreign Minister. Sergei Lavrov in a press conference as broadcast by the Athenian News Agency.

Σεργκέι ΛαβρόφΣεργκέι ΛαβρόφSergei Lavrov

Since the beginning of its invasion, which Moscow calls a “special military operation,” Russia has repeatedly stated that it intends to rid Ukraine of “Nazis.” Kyiv and Western supporters say such claims are fictitious and that Ukraine is fighting for its survival.

Putin: We will hit new targets if US starts supplying Ukraine with longer-range missiles

In an interview broadcast yesterday Sunday (5/6), the president Vladimir PutiHe warned the West that his country would hit new targets if the United States began supplying Ukraine with longer-range missiles.

Βλαντίμιρ ΠούτινΒλαντίμιρ ΠούτινVladimir Putin

“If such missiles are given to Kyiv,” we will draw the appropriate conclusions and use our weapons (…) to hit targets we have not yet hit, “Putin said in an interview with state television network Rossiya-1.

The range of missile systems depends on the ammunition used in them. HIMARS systems have a maximum range of 300 km or more, but US-supplied missiles have a range of just over 64 km, which is twice the range of the missiles they provided.

Earlier today Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reaffirmed a new package of British military aid to Ukraine during a telephone conversation between the two leaders.

Source: News Beast

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