Russia would be forced to take what Mr Putin called “appropriate decisions” based on the new threats.
MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said on Sept 12 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.
“So this is not a question of allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons or not. It is a question of deciding whether or not Nato countries are directly involved in a military conflict,” Mr Putin told Russian state TV. Russia, the world’s largest nuclear power, is also in the process of revising its nuclear doctrine - the circumstances in which Moscow would use nuclear weapons - and Mr Putin is being pressed by an influential foreign policy hawk to change it to state Russia’s willingness to use nuclear arms against countries that “support Nato aggression in Ukraine”.
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