Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the West would be directly fighting with Russia if it allowed Ukraine to strike Russian territory with Western-made long-range missiles, a move he said would alter the nature and scope of the conflict.
President Vladimir Putin has warned Russia would be “at war” with the United States and its allies if they lift restrictions on Ukraine's use of long-range Western weapons. Putin's vow to follow such a move with “appropriate decisions” — his latest, perhaps most drastic attempt to draw red lines over NATO members' backing for Kyiv — came on the eve of a meeting in Washington where the issue is expected to be high on the agenda.
It was unclear what Moscow's implied response might be, though in June Putin suggested he could provide arms to other countries to hit Western targets. Putin has repeatedly warned the West not to cross Moscow’s so-called red lines, which he warned could trigger nuclear conflict, but they have been repeatedly crossed without such a response from the Kremlin.
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