The Kremlin again resorted to threats to deter the United States from allowing Ukraine to fire long-range missiles deep into Russia, which Russia says would “fundamentally change the nature and character of the war.”
This was reported by URA-Inform with reference to ISW.
Analysts from the American Institute for the Study of War noted that Russian officials continue to use threatening rhetoric in an attempt to keep the United States from publicly granting permission for Ukraine to use ATACMS missiles for limited strikes against Russian and North Korean military targets in the Kursk region.
“Such a US authorization, if officially confirmed, would be a soft response to Russia's escalation of the involvement of North Korean troops as active militants in the Russian invasion of Ukraine,” the analysts explained.
In particular, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the US was “adding fuel to the fire” and that authorizing Ukrainian strikes with ATACMS missiles on Russian military facilities would be a new round of tension and a qualitative change in US involvement in the war.
Peskov echoed Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin's September 12 statement that Ukrainian strikes on Russia using Western-supplied weapons would escalate and directly draw Western countries into the war.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova also echoed Putin's September statements, saying that Ukrainian long-range missile strikes on Russia would “fundamentally change the essence and nature” of the war and that Russia's response would be “adequate and tangible.”
“Some Russian officials and propagandists have noted that US officials have not yet officially confirmed permission to use ATACMS missiles, likely in an attempt to dissuade them from making that decision and to refute media reports that such permission had been granted,” — summed up in ISW.
Earlier it became known how the Kremlin reacted to the permission to use long-range missiles for strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation.
