MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday (Nov 21) that the Ukraine war was escalating towards a global conflict after the US and UK allowed Ukraine to hit Russia with their weapons, and warned the West that Moscow could strike back.
Russia, Putin said, had responded to the use of US and British missiles by firing a new kind of hypersonic medium-range ballistic missile at a Ukrainian military facility. More could follow, Putin warned. He said civilians would be warned ahead of further strikes with such weapons.
After approval from the administration of President Joe Biden, Ukraine struck Russia with six US-made ATACMS on Tuesday and with British Storm Shadow missiles and US-made HIMARS on Thursday, Putin said.
"From that moment, as we have repeatedly underscored, a regional conflict in Ukraine previously provoked by the West has acquired elements of a global character," Putin said in an address to the nation carried by state television after 8pm Moscow time (1700 GMT).
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Putin says Ukraine war is going global
- by: Asia One
- 2024-11-22
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Asia One
- 11/22/2024
