Putin tells Western media, ‘utilizing German weapons is a harmful step’

Russian President Putin has answered in depth questions from Western journalists for the primary time for the reason that invasion of Ukraine. He did this at Gazprom’s headquarters in St. Petersburg. The town at present hosts the Worldwide Financial Discussion board, an annual Russian occasion aimed toward attracting international capital.

Within the interview, Putin known as using German weapons on Russian territory as a “harmful step”. “In the event that they use missiles now to assault amenities on Russian territory, it’ll utterly destroy the connection between Russia and Germany,” he stated. “Russia may use long-range weapons to provide others time to assault Western targets,” he later stated.

final week Germany gave Ukraine permission to make use of German weapons on Russian territory. A day earlier it was introduced that US President Biden secretly entered Ukraine permission for using American weapons on Russian territory. In each circumstances, it solely applies to Russian targets close to the Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv, which is near the Russian border.

Yesterday the Ukrainian military launched a counter-attack north of that metropolis. Specialists imagine that it’s seemingly that Western weapons had been used.

Putin additionally spoke concerning the doable impression of the US election outcomes on the connection between the 2 superpowers. The presidential elections can be held within the USA in November.

The Russian president stated that he doesn’t intend to vary a lot within the relationship between Russia and the US, no matter whether or not Joe Biden or Donald Trump is the winner. “We’ll work with no matter president the American folks select.”

Among the many visitors had been journalists from the world’s largest information organizations, equivalent to Reuters, Related Press (AP), Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA).

Final February Putin had already interviewed Tucker Carlson, a controversial American presenter and opinion maker. Within the non-emergency interview, the Russian president stated kind of what he stated earlier concerning the scenario in Ukraine.