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President Putin says he will meet any challenge
“You know, we don’t need to scare anyone… (but) there’s a lot of danger – it’s increasing. And we’re looking at what the enemy is doing today and escalating the situation. . Let them have a bad life if they want, and let it escalate.” He added, “We will always respond to any challenge.”
His comments came after Ukraine’s secret security service, the SBU, assassinated Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, commander of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical defense forces, in Moscow on Tuesday morning. The military official was killed along with his assistant Ilya Polikarpov by a bomb planted on his scooter. Security officials later said they considered the general “a war criminal and a perfectly legitimate target,” according to the Financial Times.
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Kirillov, 54, had been sanctioned by several countries, including Britain and Canada, for Moscow’s actions in the Ukraine war. And the day before his death, Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) opened a criminal investigation against him, accusing him of directing the use of banned chemical weapons. Russia later announced that it had arrested a 29-year-old Uzbek national in connection with the killing.
President Putin glossed over his role in Europe’s escalating conflict with the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, instead boasting of his personal role in the “historic” development of the Oleshnik hypersonic missile.
Putin challenges the West
Last week, Putin went so far as to challenge the West to a “high-tech missile showdown” and threaten a possible attack with an experimental new weapon to see if Ukraine’s allies could “stop it in time.” He suggested that there was.
Speaking on Russia 1 TV channel, he urged Western leaders to compromise, insisting: “We are ready to explore such compromises, but without compromising our interests.”
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President Putin has intensified his rhetoric warning of the possibility of world war in response to Western countries’ support for Ukraine.
Last week, he accused Western countries of pushing Russia to a “red line” and threatened to lift all self-imposed restrictions on the deployment of short- and intermediate-range missiles if the United States moved forward with deploying similar weapons. I threatened you.
Putin said Russian troops in Ukraine had captured 189 settlements so far this year and said Russia’s nuclear weapons were there for deterrence.
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“Russia’s Ministry of Defense must prepare for all possible developments, including a possible military conflict with NATO in Europe within the next 10 years,” Belousov was quoted as saying by Politico.
Andrei Belousov also warned NATO against providing military aid to Ukraine or deploying troops near Russia’s borders, saying the country needed to prepare for a full-scale conflict with NATO.
