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Putin said Ukraine war has reached global dimensions

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Putin said Ukraine war has reached global dimensions

Putin said Russia responded to the use of US and British missiles by firing a new type of hypersonic medium-range ballistic missile at a military facility in Ukraine. Putin warned that more could follow. He said civilians would be warned before any further attacks with such weapons.

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22 November 2024, 13:05

Last modified: 22 November 2024, 13:09

Russian President Vladimir Putin. File Photo: Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Pool via REUTERS

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Russian President Vladimir Putin. File Photo: Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Pool via REUTERS

Russian President Vladimir Putin. File Photo: Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Pool via REUTERS

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the Ukraine war was escalating into a global conflict after the United States and Britain allowed Ukraine to hit Russia with its weapons and warned the West that Moscow could respond.

Putin said Russia responded to the use of US and British missiles by firing a new type of hypersonic medium-range ballistic missile at a military facility in Ukraine. Putin warned that more could follow. He said civilians would be warned before any further attacks with such weapons.

Putin said that following the approval of President Joe Biden’s administration, Ukraine hit Russia with six US-made ATACMS on November 19, and with British Storm Shadow missiles and US-made HIMARS on November 21.


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“From that moment on, as we have repeatedly underlined, a regional conflict in Ukraine, previously provoked by the West, acquired elements of a global nature,” Putin said in his address to the nation broadcast on state television after 20:00 Moscow time. he said. ).

Putin said the United States was pushing the world towards a global conflict.

“We will also respond decisively and in the same way if aggressive acts escalate,” he said.

Putin said that Ukraine’s missile attack with ATACMS did not cause serious damage. However, Putin said that the Storm Shadow attack on the Kursk region on November 21 was aimed at a command post and caused deaths and injuries.

“The enemy’s use of such weapons cannot change the course of military actions in the special military operations zone,” Putin said.

“We believe that we have the right to use our weapons against the military facilities of countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities,” Putin said. “If anyone else doubts this, they are wrong; there will always be an answer.”

Russia controls 18 percent of Ukraine, including all of Crimea, which it annexed from Ukraine in 2014, 80 percent of Donbas (Donetsk and Luhansk regions), more than 70 percent of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, and Ukraine. It controls just under 3 percent of the Kharkiv region and part of Mykolaiv region.

Ukraine and the West say the 2022 invasion is an imperial-style attempt to seize sovereign Ukrainian territory and fear that if Putin wins in Ukraine, Russia could one day try to attack a NATO member.

Putin said Moscow tested a new medium-range hypersonic non-nuclear ballistic missile, known as “Oreshnik” (hazelnut), by firing it at a missile and defense facility in Dnipro, Ukraine, where missile and space rocket company Pivdenmash is located. Yuzhmash is based on Russians.

He said the attack on the business was successful.

He added that Russia is developing short- and medium-range missiles in response to the United States’ planned production and deployment of medium- and short-range missiles in Europe and the Far East.

“I believe that the United States made a mistake by unilaterally destroying the agreement on the elimination of medium-range and short-range missiles in 2019 under an exaggerated excuse,” Putin said, referring to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF). ) Treaty.

The United States officially withdrew from the 1987 (INF) Treaty with Russia in 2019, saying Moscow had violated the agreement, but the Kremlin denied this accusation.

Putin imposed a unilateral moratorium on the development of missiles previously banned by the INF treaty. He said Russia’s future actions will depend on the West’s actions and threats to Russia.

“I would like to remind you that Russia is voluntarily and unilaterally determined not to deploy medium- and short-range missiles until such American weapons appear in any part of the world.”

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