"Verbal interventions", or Ukraine has the right to self-defense, which is not limited by its borders

Exclusive. In Russia, they declared that granting Ukraine permission to use long-range weapons would mean "a direct war between NATO and the Russian Federation", and also threatened nuclear weapons.

Dictator Putin

The hysteria is understandable, because the destruction of military facilities on the territory of Russia will improve the strategic position of Ukraine in the conditions of the ongoing offensive of the Russian invaders. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation strive to continue the offensive in the Donbass, as well as to terrorize the civilian population throughout Ukraine with missile strikes using aviation, and the prospect of improving the defense potential of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces irritates and frightens.

The use of long-range Western high-precision weapons for strikes by the Armed Forces on the territory of Russia will mean the direct participation of NATO countries in the war, Putin said on Thursday, September 12. According to the dictator, Kyiv will not be able to carry out such strikes on its own, since for this it will need data from satellites, which Ukraine does not have. In addition, Putin added, "only NATO servicemen can enter flight tasks into these missile systems."

"It is not a matter of whether or not the Ukrainian regime will be allowed to strike Russia with these weapons. It is about making a decision about whether NATO countries are directly involved in the military conflict or not. If this decision is accepted, it will mean nothing else than the direct participation of NATO countries, the United States, and European countries in the war in Ukraine," he said. In the event of such a decision, "the very essence of this conflict" will change, and Russia "will take appropriate decisions, based on the threats that will be created for us", declared Putin, hiding from the drones under the arch, unsuccessfully trying to divert his botox-filled cheeks.

The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation suggested detonating a nuclear bomb to "make humanity think." "You don't need to relax. It is necessary to make a nuclear explosion somewhere, on some test site. Nuclear tests are now prohibited in our country, but maybe people should see what this all leads to in reality, should hear," said one deputy Andrey Kolesnyk from the ruling United Russia party, in particular. It is suggested that such tests can be conducted in the electoral district of Kolesnyk, Kaliningrad region, in order to hide the mass theft of toilets and furniture by the occupiers of this German region (as you know, after the expulsion of the German population, East Prussia was settled by "wheelers" from Belarusian and Bryansk collective farms).

Director of Communications of the National Security Council of the White House John Kirby, commenting on the dictator's threats, said: "I have never said, and we will never say, that we do not take Putin's threats seriously." According to him, the president of the Russian Federation "proved that he is capable of escalation and aggression." At the same time, Putin's threats are "not something we haven't heard before," Kirby noted. "So we take them into account," the American official summed up.

In turn, the official representative of the EU foreign policy service, Peter Stano, said that Putin's words will not affect the position of the European Union on the lifting of restrictions on the use of Western weapons by Kiev for strikes deep into the territory of the Russian Federation. "Putin's erroneous statements will not change our position as long as he continues his illegal aggression against Ukraine, which means he attacks us in the western democratic parts of the world," he said.

The head of the NATO Military Committee, Rob Bauer, called the strikes by Western long-range weapons deep into the territory of Russia "justified from a military point of view." He emphasized that, according to the international law of armed conflicts, the country has the right to self-defense, and this right is not limited by its borders. "The military meaning is to weaken the enemy, his logistics lines, supplies of fuel and ammunition to the front," he said at a meeting of the NATO Military Committee in Prague on Saturday, September 14.

The Kremlin is bluffing again with "red lines", but the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region proved that they do not actually exist. Russia has the right to respond with nuclear weapons to attacks on its territory, declared on September 11, a month after the transfer of part of the territory of the Kursk Region to Ukraine, the Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Academic Director of the Faculty of World Economy and World Politics of the Higher School of Economics ( HSE), political scientist Sergey Karaganov. "The time has come to declare that we have the right to respond to any massive strikes on our territory with a nuclear strike. This also applies to any seizure of our territory. At the same time, the concept of "nuclear escalation" should be introduced [into the doctrine], so that such steps would be preceded by steps that would convince the hypothetical or real enemy that we are ready," the 72-year-old political scientist, nicknamed by the students of the University, declared somewhat belatedly. Dr. Perehar".

When Russia suffers a defeat or begins to anticipate it, it always resorts to nuclear blackmail. This happened more than once, and then the Russian Federation turned into a boy from a fable who shouted: "Wolf!", which, in fact, is recognized even in Russia itself. "What do the Western leaders and their political establishment, which has played a part in the war, think about our country's reaction to possible missile strikes "into the territory"? And here's the thing: the Russians talk a lot about retaliating with weapons of mass destruction, but they do nothing. These are simply "verbal interventions". The Russians will not cross the line. They are just scary. A nuclear conflict is of no use to them, they can lose more, including the support of the "global south", - in particular, wrote on the morning of Saturday, September 14, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. And he threatened in his heart that "all patience comes to an end."

On the same day, the ex-adviser of the US president, John Bolton, said that "with any nuclear blackmail or threat, it must be said personally and publicly - if Russia uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin will sign his own death warrant." And he was hardly joking, conveying the point of view of the American establishment. The St. Petersburg Chekist, after coming to power in the wake of the Third Chechen War, unleashed after staged FSB bombings of residential buildings in September 1999, Putin repeatedly stated that "Russia does not negotiate with terrorists, it destroys them", but he himself is a terrorist.

Ukraine calls on its allies to demonstrate their strength and unity, not fear and bewilderment in the face of empty Russian threats. In just one week, the Russian Federation used about 30 missiles of different types, more than 800 aerial bombs and almost 300 attack UAVs against Ukraine. "Ukraine needs strong support from partners in our defense of life against Russian terror: air defense, long-range combat, support for our soldiers. Everything that will help to force Russia to end this war," said the President of Ukraine on September 15.

Vera Perovskaya