Moscow says its goal is to make it clear for NATO that Russia will respond harshly to attempts to hurt its military

Russia will perceive convoys delivering arms from NATO states to Ukraine legitimate targets for its military once they reach Ukrainian territory, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov warned in an interview published on Wednesday.

Regular contact with the US is impossible for Russia, considering “Washington’s unabashed support for militaristic intentions of the Kiev regime, the pouring of modern weapons” into the country by NATO members, the diplomat said. Moscow’s goal now is to make it abundantly clear for the US and its allies that Russia will use harsh methods in response to attempts to hurt its military in Ukraine.

“We are warning that American-NATO transports carrying weapons across the Ukrainian territory are considered legitimate military targets,” he stressed.


Moscow has maintained this position from the early days of hostilities in Ukraine. This week, the Russian defense ministry reported destroying four launchers from a battery of the S-300 air defense system delivered to Ukraine by an unnamed European nation.

The weapons in question were presumably from Slovakia, which announced donating an S-300 battery to Ukraine last week. Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger called the Russian claim “propaganda,” citing Kiev’s denial of the report.

In an interview with TASS news agency, Ryabkov said Washington de facto refused to give straight answers about Pentagon-funded biolabs in Ukraine. Moscow and China said they were concerned that the labs were used for bioweapons research, an allegation that US officials have denied. The lack of a proper answer to legitimate questions “confirms that our concerns have grounding,” the Russian diplomat said.

Ryabkov said that all talks between Russia and the US on strategic stability and nuclear deterrence have been frozen. New START, the last treaty on nuclear arms reduction binding the two nations, which has survived since the Cold War, will remain in force until February 2026, he said.

https://www rt com/russia/553811-nato-weapons-legitimate-targets/

Russia can't win this war no matter the time it takes.

Which war??

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: We see attempts of sabotage and strikes by Ukrainian troops on objects on the territory of Russia.

If such sabotage continues, the Russian Armed Forces will strike at decision-making centers, including in Kiev, from which the Russian army has so far refrained.

Clowns.
Must they announce.If they have the nerve they should attack the convoys.
Their propaganda to their people and dimwitted Putin fans that they have attacked and destroyed 3 S-300 batteries have been debunked by both sides.
US continues supplying Ukrainians weapons,now upgraded on a daily basis and even go as far as making the general route the supply convoys go through known,yet these overrated Russian clowns are making announcements of 'willing' to attack.
An army that even with 450,000 troops could not defeat the Finland in the Winter war of 1939 is being dealth another deadly blow.
Mariupol they have been bombarding since day 1 has still not fallen till this day.
Jesters.

Drenimarcus:
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: We see attempts of sabotage and strikes by Ukrainian troops on objects on the territory of Russia.

If such sabotage continues, the Russian Armed Forces will strike at decision-making centers, including in Kiev, from which the Russian army has so far refrained.

Seriously Russia is being lenient with Ukraine, maybe because they shared a common history...

Botlord:

Seriously Russia is being lenient with Ukraine, maybe because they shared a common history...

Yeah but the updates coming in these past days has been very hot. Seems the gloves is coming off after Borell remarks last week. You need to see the explosions around Kharkiv right now

Drenimarcus:


Yeah but the updates coming in these past days has been very hot. Seems the gloves is coming off after Borell remarks last week.

I noticed the recent update is fire...

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doctokwus:
Clowns.
Must they announce.If they have the nerve they should attack the convoys.
Their propaganda to their people and dimwitted Putin fans that they have attacked and destroyed 3 S-300 batteries have been debunked by both sides.
US continues supplying Ukrainians weapons,now upgraded on a daily basis and even go as far as making the general route the supply convoys go through known,yet these overrated Russian clowns are making announcements of 'willing' to attack.
An army that even with 450,000 troops could not defeat the Finland in the Winter war of 1939 is being dealth another deadly blow.
Mariupol they have been bombarding since day 1 has still not fallen till this day.
Jesters.

Russia didn't defeat Finland? Lol... Illiterates with big ego full Nairaland, guy, go and read up

Elvictor:


Russia didn't defeat Finland? Lol... Illiterates with big ego full Nairaland, guy, go and read up

you get time sha, Dey ignore those hungry jambites…

This is nothing but rhetorics. Moscow had said this weeks now, yet no action seen.
Sincerely Ukraine didn't invest much into its military. Russia has seen this loophole and will capitalize on it. No arms to Ukraine, resistance falls, morale drags. This is what is happening in Mauripol

Mauripol needs these artilleries so badly not to fall

Drenimarcus:
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: We see attempts of sabotage and strikes by Ukrainian troops on objects on the territory of Russia.

If such sabotage continues, the Russian Armed Forces will strike at decision-making centers, including in Kiev, from which the Russian army has so far refrained.

You are funny, which one is refrain, were they able to penetrate? They ran away for their live and you are here talking about refrain.

Russia refrain from storming Kiev Ukraine’s big cities for fear of great losses among civilians
They did not want to follow the ruthless style of the American authorities, who do not care about the lives of civilians to achieve their goals.

alizma:

You are funny, which one is refrain, were they able to penetrate? They ran away for their live and you are here talking about refrain.

.. how harsh can it get? Life in Ukraine is a "living hell" for millions as it is and then a talk of harsh?
At this rate, I fear that a global conflagration may not be too far away in the horizon.
Russia is using a fine balance of fear tactics amidst widespread propaganda while engaging in barbaric violence and at the same time warning the west that it could get worse still, in an attempt to have it's way in Ukraine while sending a chilling message of a similar fate to it's former satellite nations.
It's time for the west to call his bluff and send even more lethal weapons to the Ukrainians.
Sadly as the saying goes, we may know the beginning of a conflict, but hardly can anyone tell the end.

doctokwus:
Clowns.
Must they announce.If they have the nerve they should attack the convoys.
Their propaganda to their people and dimwitted Putin fans that they have attacked and destroyed 3 S-300 batteries have been debunked by both sides.
US continues supplying Ukrainians weapons,now upgraded on a daily basis and even go as far as making the general route the supply convoys go through known,yet these overrated Russian clowns are making announcements of 'willing' to attack.
An army that even with 450,000 troops could not defeat the Finland in the Winter war of 1939 is being dealth another deadly blow.
Mariupol they have been bombarding since day 1 has still not fallen till this day.
Jesters.

Don't forget, Russia annexed Karelia and Vyborg from the Finns, just as Russia annexed Finland itself from Sweden. Karelia and Vyborg are part of the Russian federation till date.

RUSSIA AEROSPACE FORCES HAVE PUT THE STRATEGIC BOMBERS ON HIGH ALERT! ABOUT TO RAIN.

Good. Russia isn't destroying those convoys because it doesn't want to escalate issues, but it's now clear that NATO wants problem.

So Russia should begin destroying those weapons as they get into Ukraine. They're all legitimate targets.

Elvictor:


Russia didn't defeat Finland? Lol... Illiterates with big ego full Nairaland, guy, go and read up

they couldn’t in the first three months.. they had to go back and regroup before they were able overwhelm them.

Putin's war will fail and hunt him down. No justification for killing of civilians, destruction of families, children just to claim you're a super power.



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Botlord:

Seriously Russia is being lenient with Ukraine, maybe because they shared a common history...

Someone said if RUSSIA should go to war with Finland or Poland that those countries would feel it Hard.

Russia is very very lenient with Ukraine

Sure.

Once the NATO transport facility get into the territory of Ukraine, it's legal if its gets hit by Russian strikes. NATO knows this.


Since Ukraine is not yet an official member of NATO, it would be a war crime for them to directly hit Russian troops.

Aufbauh:
Russia can't win this war no matter the time it takes.

It is not a war.

It is USA, Britain etc that is calling it a war

It is called a special military operations by the Russian state and government.

The Agenda of the Russian state government according to President Vladimir Putin is to destroy the military and economic threat which Ukraine pose to Russia with it's attempt to join NATO and Eu.

This "special operations" by Russia in ukraine is being pursued by NATO and now turning gradually into WW3.

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Russia has not warmed up yet.

They are not large for nothing

Teaser4:

https://www rt com/russia/553811-nato-weapons-legitimate-targets/

Sure. Russia is just playing war games with Ukraine. Russia can overrun Ukraine in less than half a day if that becomes the objective. Once he crosses Mariupol he’ll gather momentum and start gobbling up the smaller countries and it will be time for Ekpa to look for another country! He will get to know who really is a Finn. Ask Nigerians who thought they were Ukrainian! If Russia strikes NATO convoys vital should be a legitimate move as NATO will be hard pressed to explain its presence in Ukraine. Ukraine is not a member of NATO!

MAD RUSSIA.
So you expect all the world to leave you alone as you are commiting Genocide in Ukraine.

Russians supporting this war are killers.
Their supporters too around the world are killers too.
What is even the gain of killing people just because of some fears?

Russia like fight

Drenimarcus:
RUSSIA AEROSPACE FORCES HAVE PUT THE STRATEGIC BOMBERS ON HIGH ALERT! ABOUT TO RAIN.

If NATO descend on them now, Putin will start shouting use of nuclear weapon