{"id":67166,"date":"2024-06-06T15:10:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T15:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/moscow-could-target-countries-supplying-weapons-to-ukraine-putin-says\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T15:10:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T15:10:06","slug":"moscow-could-target-countries-supplying-weapons-to-ukraine-putin-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/moscow-could-target-countries-supplying-weapons-to-ukraine-putin-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow Could Target Countries Supplying Weapons to Ukraine, Putin Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/05\/multimedia\/05russia-putin-1-thwq\/05russia-putin-1-thwq-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,549&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Moscow Could Target Countries Supplying Weapons to Ukraine, Putin Says\" title=\"Moscow Could Target Countries Supplying Weapons to Ukraine, Putin Says\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia warned on Wednesday that Western nations supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles and allowing them to be used to attack inside Russia was a \u201cdangerous step\u201d that could prompt Moscow to reciprocate against Western targets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf someone thinks it possible to send such weapons to a war zone to strike our territory and create problems for us,\u201d Mr. Putin said at a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/74223\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">news conference<\/a>, \u201cthen why do we not have the right to send our weapons of the same class to those regions of the world where strikes can be made on sensitive facilities of the countries that do this against Russia?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Putin singled out Germany, saying that its supply of battle tanks to Ukraine had been an initial blow to Russian-German relations, but its permission to use missiles in Russia was even worse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNow, when they say that some missiles will appear that will strike targets on Russian territory, this, of course, is ultimately destroying Russo-German relations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Putin was speaking to senior editors from at least 15 news agencies from around the world that were invited to meet with him on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Mr. Putin had skipped the tradition since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, but this year the invitation was extended to Western outlets such as The Associated Press, Reuters and various European agencies including Agence France-Presse, DPA from Germany, ANSA from Italy and EFE from Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Putin\u2019s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, told reporters that representatives from \u201cunfriendly countries\u201d were included because \u201cit is very important for them to get to know Putin and understand Russia firsthand,\u201d according to Russia\u2019s official news agency, Tass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Western business executives largely avoided the forum, while China had a significant presence, including a presentation of a bulletproof limousine that retails for more than $560,000 in China, Tass reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Putin answered questions on a wide range of topics, but many of the queries focused on the war in Ukraine. Although Russia invaded Ukraine after it had begun destabilizing the Eastern regions in 2014 by supporting separatists, Mr. Putin again portrayed the war as the fault of Ukraine and its Western allies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Countries that are supplying weapons to Ukraine risked being dragged into a war with Russia, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was not clear where Mr. Putin possibly planned to position Russian weapons in other regions. Troops and armaments have been deployed in Belarus, possibly including nuclear missiles, during the war. Belarus borders Europe more closely than Russia, as does the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea. Russia also has forces in Syria near bases where the United States operates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In terms of relations with Washington, Mr. Putin said that he did not think the looming presidential election would change much as long as the United States continued to pursue \u201cgreatness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Asked about the recent conviction of the former president, Donald J. Trump, Mr. Putin said that the United States was burning itself from within. \u201cIt is obvious all over the world that the prosecution of Trump, especially in court on charges that were formed on the basis of events that happened years ago, without direct proof, is simply using the judicial system in an internal political struggle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On the subject of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/evan-gershkovich\" title=\"\">Evan Gershkovich<\/a>, the American reporter from The Wall Street Journal who has been imprisoned in Russia on espionage charges for more than a year, Mr. Putin said that the United States was taking \u201cvigorous steps\u201d toward his release. Mr. Gershkovich, The Journal and the U.S. government have all denied the charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Such issues \u201cshould only be resolved on the basis of reciprocity,\u201d Mr. Putin added. \u201cThe relevant U.S. and Russian agencies are in contact with each other on this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Milana Mazaeva<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/05\/us\/putin-russia-ukraine-germany.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia warned on Wednesday that Western nations supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles and allowing them to be used to attack inside Russia was a \u201cdangerous step\u201d that could prompt Moscow to reciprocate against Western targets. \u201cIf someone thinks it possible to send such weapons to a war zone to strike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/05\/multimedia\/05russia-putin-1-thwq\/05russia-putin-1-thwq-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[245,3098,209,26679,6574,1130,4120],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67168,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67166\/revisions\/67168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}