Russia has said the West is playing with fire by considering allowing Ukraine to strike deep inside Russia with Western missiles and has warned the United States that World War Three will not be confined to Europe.
Ukraine attacked Russia’s western Kursk region on August 6 and has seized a chunk of territory in the biggest foreign offensive against Russia since World War II.
Sergei Lavrov, who has served as Putin’s foreign minister for more than 20 years, said the West was seeking to escalate the war in Ukraine and was “going around” considering Ukrainian requests to ease restrictions on the use of weapons provided from abroad.
“They look like little kids playing with matches”
“We now confirm once again that playing with fire – and they look like little children playing with matches – is very dangerous for adult uncles and aunts who have been entrusted with nuclear weapons in one or another Western country,” Lavrov told reporters in Moscow.
“The Americans are implicitly associating talks about World War III as something that, God forbid, if it happens, will be exclusively about Europe,” Lavrov said.
Lavrov added that Russia has “clarified” its nuclear doctrine.
Russia’s 2020 nuclear doctrine sets out when its president would consider using a nuclear weapon: broadly in response to an attack using nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction or conventional weapons “when the very existence of the state is threatened.”
Source: RES-MPE
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