Representatives of Western countries targeted: Russia threatens attacks in Kyiv

Created: 04/27/2022, 08:20

By: Felix Busjaeger

Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, and his government are threatening retaliation from the West.

© Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool AP/dpa

In the midst of the Ukraine war, the Russian government has escalated threats to the West.

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• The

  Russian government

  threatens the

  West

  : Great Britain and other western countries have become the target of Russian threats.

  Among other things, because of the supply of weapons to Ukraine, Russia reacted irritably.

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The tone is getting rougher:

while the West is debating possible arms deliveries to Ukraine, the situation in the Ukraine war seems to be getting worse.

As several news agencies report, the Russian Defense Ministry under Sergei Shoigu has openly made threats.

"The Russian army is on 24-hour stand-by to launch retaliatory strikes on decision-making centers in Kyiv with long-range, high-precision weapons," the ministry said in a statement.

A day earlier, at a meeting with UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned against arms sales to Ukraine.

In the event of such attacks, Russia would also accept that representatives of certain Western countries would be present in the centers.

The threats are believed to be a Russian reaction to the Secretary of State in the British Ministry of Defence, James Heappey, who considers the use of British weapons against Russian soldiers to be unproblematic.

Almost nine weeks after Vladimir Putin's Russian invasion war began, the Ukrainian government of Volodymyr Zelenskyj reported that Russian forces are currently being reinforced in eastern Ukraine, possibly to speed up the offensive in that part of the country.

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