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The Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that he will use nuclear weapons against the West if someone interferes in Ukraine.
The threat comes when the Russian leader said that the response to counterattacks will be “lightning fast”.
In statements to the legislators of his country published by the British site The Sun, said: “If someone intends to interfere in what is happening from the outside, you should know that it constitutes an unacceptable strategic threat to Russia.
“You should know that our response to counterattacks will be lightning fast. Quick.
“We have all the weapons we need for this. No one else can brag about these weapons, and we won’t brag about them.
“ But we will use them“, he threatened.
Putin seemed to be referring to his six superweapons, including Russia’s deadly Sarmat missile, dubbed “Satan-2,” which was launched last week.
Missile can fly 11,000 miles, carry 15 warheads, and has the potential to destroy an area the size of France.
The president went on to say that the Kremlin “cannot allow an anti-Russia to be created in the historical territory of Russia” and added that Ukraine was “pressured” to attack Crimea and Donbas.
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Accusing the West of using the Ukrainians as “expendable material”, he added that they “en masse prepared an economic war against Russia, step by step, using all kinds of pretexts and , sometimes none to pass sanctions”.
It comes after Russia threatened to attack military targets in the UK after Britain supply weapons to Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that attacks could be authorized against member states of NATO.
She said: “Do we understand correctly that in order to disrupt the logistics of military supplies, Russia can attack military targets on the territory of NATO countries that supply weapons to the kyiv regime?”
“After all, this leads directly to deaths and bloodshed on Ukrainian territory. As I understand it, Britain is one of those countries.”
Comes as pro-Putin TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov threatened to blow up “gross Britain” using the deadly Satan 2 nuclear bomb by 16,000 mph, for UK support of Ukraine.
“As it turned out, one more Sarmat means one less Great Britain,” he said on TV channel Kremlin-controlled state television.
Russia successfully launched the missile earlier this month and Putin warned that the test was “something to think for those who try to threaten Russia”.
A video showed the launch of the killer missile from an underground silo, which caused a huge ball of fire.
Traveled almost the entire length of Russia, about 3,600 miles, in about 15 minutes and landed at the Kura missile test range on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Meanwhile, Russia’s foreign minister has warned that a nuclear world war is now a “real” danger, as British and NATO weapons are already “legitimate” targets in Ukraine.
In a chilling message, Sergei Lavrov said the risk of a Third World War is now “considerable” and said the West is essentially waging a proxy war against Moscow through its support of kyiv.
Lavrov accused NATO forces of “adding fuel to the fire” by “throwing weapons into Ukraine”.
In an interview with Russian news agencies, he said: “This is our key position on which we base everything.
“The risks are now considerable.
“I would not like to raise and You are risks artificially. Many would like that. The danger is serious, real, and we should not underestimate it”.
Lavrov added that arms shipments from Great Britain and other NATO countries “would be a legitimate target,” reiterating what Russian commanders have previously said since the invasion in late February.
Lavrov accused the West of deliberately trying to “wear down the Russian army” and exhaust its ability to wage war, something the minister optimistically said was “wishful thinking”. Western countries have been supplying aid, weapons and equipment to Ukraine, without actually sending troops or imposing a no-fly zone.