Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov warned Wednesday that Moscow views any US and NATO vehicles transporting weapons inside Ukrainian territory as legitimate military targets.
“We are warning that US-NATO vehicles with weapons that move across the Ukrainian territory will be viewed by us as legitimate military targets,” Ryabkov told Russia’s Tass news agency.
Russia had previously warned that it would target arms shipments inside Ukraine but hasn’t explicitly threatened US and NATO vehicles before. The Western powers are pouring weapons into Ukraine through bordering Eastern European countries, but it’s not clear if the shipments are entering Ukraine on US or NATO vehicles.
Ryabkov warned that Moscow would “curb” any Western attempts to hurt Russian troops and the forces of the breakaway Donbas republics of Luhansk and Donestk (LPR and DPR). “We are also making it clear to the Americans and other Westerners that attempts to slow our special operation and inflict the most possible damage to Russian units and the units of the DPR and LPR will be curbed in a tough manner,” he said.
On Monday, Russia claimed that it destroyed an S-300 missile air defense system inside Ukraine that was transferred to the country by an unspecified European nation. Slovakia recently gave Ukraine an S-300 but denied that it was targeted by a Russian strike.
President Biden on Wednesday authorized a new $800 million weapons package for Ukraine that includes helicopters, howitzers, and armored switchblade drones. The announcement came after the US and its NATO allies had pledged to start sending Ukraine more heavy equipment.
Russia could have a wide buffer zone free of NATO forces if it made that area radioactive.
Don’t imagine they have not thought about it.
If people though 9/11 was full on. What till a tactical nuke is used. The panic lockdowns caused by Covid and the rush for goods at supermarkets will pale into insignificance in comparison to the panic we will see by the general public worldwide and the stock markets.
The most worrying is the panic it’ll cause with those holding the nuclear Football briefcases within short distance of Putin and Biden.
Tactical nukes?…. Something to look forward to…
They were in the plans during the Vietnam war.
Trump promoted tactical nukes, and they are being produced as we speak. I have little doubt that this decision, combined with Trump’s revocation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, were key factors in Putin’s decision to draw a line in the sand at Ukraine.
Trump promoted tactical nukes, and they are being produced as we speak. I have little doubt that this decision, combined with Trump’s revocation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, were key factors in Putin’s decision to draw a line in the sand at Ukraine.
make sure he is at the testing range for PR face time when tactical nuke grenades are demonstrated.
It was the 700 CLUB who insured right away that bioweapons and tactical nukes would be used.
Tactical Nukes are not the best foot forward in a nuclear war.
They are smaller ‘field’ of use devices and are smaller.
What was being monitored remotely was background radiation and it spiked when military vehicles stirred up the dust around Chernobyl.
Tactical nukes can be a Ukrainian dirty bomb False Flag to invite escalation from NATO.
Russia is not going to use Tactical Nukes at onset, they are for ground wars honey. This is a missile war, not a nuclear hand grenade war.
If thermonuclear weapons will be used, they will do more than just reduce the offensive by tens ( As in Decimate, an old military tactic where a volley of missiles ( lead projectiles) and arrows ( slings and arrows) would reduce an advancing army by tens, hence “decimate”. Tactical nukes would be used on ground forces to Decimate them whereas a megaton is many magnetude of destructive power.
Megatons not kilo tonnes are the resolve of Absolute Nuclear War.
Yes. The rush to hoard in March, 2020 revealed what we are really capable of. Hoarding by families was something to see. I observed members of a family come in to the supermarket near us, split up with their own cart, go to different check stands, then gather at their car.
I saw a woman in a grocery store which had sold out of sanitizing cleaning products, lysol etc. She sprayed some expensive hair spray on her fingers, I guess because of the high alcohol content! Those kind of non-food items at the grocery store are pretty expensive, so she didn’t want to buy the item, just spray out some of it for free! The behavior of the citizens of this divided republic will be something awful, if we are confronted with a war at home, and even simply shortage of goods, to say nothing of being victims of war itself. I hope to God we repent of our war mongering so we never have a war come home to us.
Even greater when after they drop a nuke in Ukraine, the wind blows the radioactive dust farther North into Russia.
* Chernobyl.
look it up son.
Do you think the Tankers drove through the fields around Chernobyl recklessly? Without Nuke PPG? Hugh?
The area has radiation monitors everywhere, son.
They monitored the spike from the dust somewhere remotely LOOKING FOR SPIKES.
Do you think that made europeans think about escalation into thermonuclear war?
We thought nothing of it because we have small brains.
Tell that to yourself, and the medical personnel treating soldiers with radiation sickness in Belarus, boy. Delusional.
I have seen those conscripts doing lots of stupid sh!t. PPG? Or do you mean their parade uniforms. Radiation doesn’t care about PPG especially when digging trenches in the red forest. But go ahead, keep defending your incompetent paper army.
man that is a smeller friend,
We generated the bs news that Russia was going to use nukes KNOWING there is a huge network in place to detect any leaked radiation and background radiation.The 700 club prophesied that Russia would follow their fabricated back story and some kicked-up dust did the trick SUCKERS.
OUR NEWS IS GARBAGE PROPAGANDA.
that pairs well with the Russian ship that sink with all 350 dead sailors that their mommas are weeping over…. Wait,…
All hands were safely rescued? those dirty liars!
Not a scratch from a Uke missile either.
was it SDI?
you are looking for a radiation signature?
How come none of the Uke conscripts are not on the news with radiation sickness?
huh?
That’s worth reporting:
Delusional Behavior
Zelinsky has just spoken out about this as a risk causing him concern.
So if my thoughts don’t inspire concern for this, do his? Or is he only “credible” when he says what war supporters want to hear at the moment?
Doesn’t that seem rather illogical (and dangerous?) Or should we just go to war and get it all over with?….
My day is free….. 😉
The only question I really have is Ukraine big enough to hold all this stuff?… The only other question I have is: do we really want two nuclear countries to go to war?… Cause it looks like that is the direction we are heading in….
Ukraine is massive. It could hide anything easily. This war will continue to escalate because NATO has been storing weapons in Ukraine since 2014.
are the batteries still good?
Quicker than our apathy to our extinction by climate despoliation
There is zero threat of human extinction from climate “despoliation.” None. Zero
Thanks, your qualified well thought out answer eased millions of fears…
If you’re that afraid of a nonissue, I’d hate to see what you think about a real problem.
lol.
check out the sunspots
I don’t see how we turn back from a major war among numerous nations at this point. I believe Russia has been pushed to the point of no return and it’s obvious that some nations including the U.S are pushing for just that.
Here we go again. Any vehicle that is destroyed will be a “civilian” vehicle. I don’t pretend to understand the nuances of these warnings. But I’m surprised that Russia is not warning that 𝘢𝘯𝘺 vehicle moving from west to east will be considered hostile. It’s far less convincing to call foul when one has been forewarned.
Is that feasible?
Isn’t the question a technical one? Biden has promised again and again that no NATO troops would enter the fray. But, unofficially, the US is all over the battlefield. So Putin is at pains to publicly stipulate for this, -i.e., Biden’s word, and cannot therefore be attacking NATO inside the border of Ukraine. ??
By ferreting weapons into the war, any and all countries that do so are belligerents, be they NATO or other. Number one is the U.S. of A.
Putin’s Army shoots anything that moves without discrimination hence the reason for no warning. Plus, that warning goes both ways. Russian military are legitimate targets in Ukraine as well as in Russia.
No they do not son.
They telegraphed and telegraphed and telegraphed and anyone who wanted to leave the Ukraine Military and Ukraine left.
The remainder were conscripted to stay and die.
Every man 18-60 is conscripted military in Ukraine now.
They were shamed into serving Zelenski like he shames us for more weapons and things like airpower.
He blames the world for the deaths of his conscripted military he calls victims of genocide. Now Joe uses the term too. Killing nazified Ukrainians conscripted into war with no uniform or visable ID is not barbarian or genocide, it is war. The out of uniform military are spies, terrorists, guerilla militias.
He is using sophomoric sociopath manipulations to lead with and he has the Azov Battalion as his body guard.
Maybe Zelenski is under house arrest by Asov? Maybe he cannot leave and he has to follow their demands and script?
You got that wrong, son. Ukrainian men are fighting willingly unlike the lied to Russian soldiers and conscripts. Ask any Ukrainian. Brave men with big fking balls. Im sure you wouldn’t fight for anything.
Conscripts with big balls need a uniform of some kind son because when it comes to spies, every military commits war crimes and caps them.
We did it, and that is war son
then Why even announce Conscripted service if they are all volunteering?
I fight for truth sonny boy, not for NAZIS.
Remember the Nazis and the Lusitania!
Nazis said, “we will engage”, even got two newspapers to run it.
our travel agents sold passage anyway.
Nobody dives on that wreck.
The Nazis didn’t exist when the Lusitania was sunk.
Good one. You are right!
Munich Putsch ~ 1920’S
Hitler gets imprisoned, writes “My Jihad”.
It’s only a matter of time until NATO casualties occur.
The peace movement in the West if one exists will have their work
cut out for them to stem the jingoistic tide that will follow.
Once Russian troops have plowed the road back to the Donbas republics, there will be a line of demarcation that will be secured. I believe that was the intention from the beginning.
Dissarm and denazification was the aim, Russia right now is bleeding US/NATO out of weapons, manpower and the will to fight. This will go on for months. There is 60,000 to 100,000 NATO trained troops trapped in Donbass. One might ask themselves why?
The denazifier has become the denazified. Unlike Russia, Ukrainians have not lost their will to defend their land.
From April 3 to April 13 a minimum 1,600 Ukrainian fighters surrendered to Russian and DPR forces.
267 Ukrainian service members from 503rd Battalion of the 36th Marine Brigade surrendered at the district of Kalmiyusky.
30 Ukrainian service members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) surrendered at the district of Levoberezhny.
160 Ukrainian service members of the 36th Marine Brigade surrendered at Kalmiyuskiy.
1,026 Ukrainian service members of the 36th Marine Brigade, including 162 officers, surrendered at Kalmiyuskiy.
134 Ukrainian service members of the 36th Marine Brigade, including 14 officers, surrendered at Kalmiyuskiy.
In summary the Ukrainian forces have surrendered, what is left in Mariupol is the hard core NATO, foreign mercenaries and Azov Nazi’s. Obviously it is external powers and Ukrainian traitors that are keeping this war going.
Thank you dearly.
Zelenski failed to insure his troops defending his country were properly identified for combat.
Manditory Conscript of military service was a great idea but he had no way to supply them with what he says they need more of: weapons.
Bright Yellow and Blue armbands would work.
if not that then A Uke flag patch to wear, like on the helmets Germany gave them-
The unidentified are being confronted with absolute severity like they were children with live a grenade walking around.
Like terrorists -and the Russians hate Nazis Terrorists with absolute certainty. No shades of grey: Zekenski has sacrificed his people as cannon fodder and blames the USA for a slow response to his demands, therefore the deaths are on our heads if you listen to his bleating.
You should have your own news network. That’s a lot of surrendering. Then Russia will have no excuse to take over the area but what if they don’t, what a humiliation.
Oh Azov, those guys. they will never go away, how convenient for the Kremlin. Keep that excuse to continue justifying the invasion.
They keep confusing Azov with the Wagner people…
Only in Russia does news gets better with time since they control the nation’s media. They have not come forward on fate of the sailors from the Moskova and loves ones of fallen service members are not allow to complain (Nazi like behavior). That 9 May Day parade is running out of things to celebrate. Bet you Russia will condemn this attack as an escalation. Lol.
The special military operation launched by the Russian Armed Forces on February 24 thwarted a large-scale offensive by shock groups of Ukrainian troops on the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republic. This made it possible to save tens, if not hundreds of thousands, of Donbass civilians, whom the Kiev regime has been methodically shooting with large-caliber and rocket artillery for the past 8 years, driving the elderly, women and children into basements.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ordered the suspension of 11 political parties with links to Russia. The largest of them is the Opposition Platform for Life, which has 44 out of 450 seats in the country’s parliament.
The Opposition Platform for Life is led by Viktor Medvedchuk, who has been held under house arrest since May 2021. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s also sanctioned three television stations owned by Medvedchuk.
You want instant updates? lol.
what is your news source on these details of newsworthyness?
I am willing to accept that Russia did not shoot down that airliner.
I am inclined to believe that the russian speaking actors in Ukraine staged that murder to escalate.
Be careful what you ask for but Russia has big enough britches to survey the facts and disseminate news on their time schedule, not yours.
Be thankful you have the ability to follow along with what you have access to.
Everyone gets bricked.
do you have your Twitler account yet?
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