WAR AND PEACE
Russia has been signalling to the US and its allies for weeks that if they offer permission to Ukraine to strike deep into Russian territory with Western-supplied missiles, then Moscow will contemplate it a serious escalation.
Putin mentioned on Sep 12 that Western approval for such a step would imply “the direct involvement of NATO nations, the US and European nations within the battle in Ukraine” as a result of NATO army infrastructure and personnel must be concerned within the focusing on and firing of the missiles.
The Kremlin mentioned that it sensed European powers had been nervous about Trump’s election, however that they had been nonetheless “pumping weapons into Ukraine with a purpose to proceed this battle to the top”.
Peskov was requested about studies that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron needed to persuade US President Joe Biden to permit Ukraine to fireplace Storm Shadow missiles deep into Russia.
“Nothing may be dominated out,” Peskov mentioned, including that European leaders nonetheless needed to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.
“We, in flip, will proceed the SMO (particular army operation) till we obtain all our objectives,” Peskov mentioned. “The dynamic of the SMO is effectively understood by the army. They perceive effectively what is going on. And it’s in all probability necessary to notice that no particular person sorts of weapons are in a position to change this dynamic anymore.”
Putin, who ordered hundreds of troops into Ukraine in 2022 after eight years of combating in japanese Ukraine, casts the battle as a battle between Russia and the declining West, which he says ignored Russia’s pursuits after the 1991 Soviet collapse.
Ukraine and its Western allies say Putin unleashed an imperial-style battle towards its smaller neighbour and have repeatedly mentioned that if Russia wins the battle, then autocratic nations the world over can be emboldened.
