Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated during an address in Moscow that nations supplying weapons to Ukraine pose a ‘threat’ to Russia while insisting that Moscow has no plans to attack Europe.
The despot made the comments at the Valdai foreign relations forum in Moscow, where he said that he could not rule out the use of weapons of mass destruction from his foreign policy.
‘Russia is not going to attack anyone but, if attacked, will have to retaliate,’ he told the annual Valdai Discussion Club, in a long-winded speech that lasted for more than three hours.
‘European Union citizens should understand that,’ he added, while clarifying that those who supply weapons to Kyiv are a ‘threat’, as are Western countries that practice military drills.
‘We are not threatening anyone, we are not going to attack anyone in 2029, or in 2030, or in 2050, but if faced with aggression, we will have to respond,’ he went on to say.
The UK has faced persistent retaliation and threats from the Kremlin in recent weeks after UK-made drones were used to hit targets on Russian soil and for sharing missile plans with Kyiv to help increase their own production of weapons.
And on Wednesday, Putin threatened Nato that Russia would use nuclear weapons if he felt that the Kremlin’s European outpost of Kaliningrad and Murmansk were being isolated.
