French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said in an interview published Saturday that Ukraine could fire French-provided long-range missiles into Russian territory following US and British authorization of such strikes.
France has provided Ukraine with its version of the British Storm Shadow missiles, known as SCALP missiles, which have a range of about 155 miles. Barrot told BBC that there are no “red lines” when it comes to France’s support of Ukraine and that Ukrainian forces could fire the missiles into Russia “in the logics of self-defense.”
“The principle has been set… our messages to President Zelensky have been well received,” Barrot said.
It’s unclear if Ukraine has yet fired French-provided SCALP missiles into Russia. Last week, Ukrainian forces used both the British Storm Shadow missiles and US-provided ATACMS, which have a range of about 190 miles, in strikes on Russian territory.
Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to the escalations by firing a new intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile into Ukraine. He also issued a stark warning, saying Russia has the right to target the military facilities of any country that’s providing Ukraine with long-range weapons for strikes on Russian territory.
“We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against the military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities,” Putin said. “If anyone else doubts this, then they are wrong – there will always be a response.”
Putin made clear back in September that he would view NATO-supported long-range strikes as direct NATO involvement in the war and ordered changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine as a warning to the West. But President Biden ignored those warnings as his administration is looking to escalate the proxy war as much as possible before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in on January 20.
Putin is not going to fire on NATO facilities in NATO countries. He is not that stupid.
No, he is not stupid. The Russian leadership are not stupid. The US however are. And so NATO is. That should be cause for deep worry. But it isn't. They are too stupid to discern restraint from weakness, so they leave the Russians no other option but to react – react to Western stupidity – and this amounts to the ultimate in stupidity to climb the escalation ladder with the world's largest nuclear power who already has secured absolute dominance all the way up.
Hear hear.
https://tass.com/defense/1876583 "In addition, the document states that Russia will now view any attack by a non-nuclear country supported by a nuclear power as a joint attack. Moscow also reserves the right to consider a nuclear response to a conventional weapons attack threatening its sovereignty, a large-scale launch of enemy aircraft, missiles, and drones targeting Russian territory, their crossing of the Russian border, and an attack on its ally Belarus."
https://tass.com/politics/1876399 Russia entitled to use weapons against military sites of states attacking it — Duma
https://tass.com/politics/1876537 Any escalation scenario possible in Ukraine conflict — Medvedev
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/75614/videos Statement by the President of the Russian Federation
“We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against the military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities,” Putin said.
Pointed out in many videos and articles: criminals Jake Sullivan and Anthony Blinken are running and making American foreign policy. The vacuous Biden is not running anything
The real threat are the Aegis Ashore installations in Poland and Romania. If the US is contemplating using those to support Ukraine – and I suspect they are, which is likely why Russia recently designated them "priority targets" – than Russia will have no choice but to destroy them. And then the neocons have their casus belli to intervene directly.
Of course, they will lose, but it still brings us closer to nuclear WWIII.
This is a much bigger threat than a few Storm Shadows, ATACMS and SCALPS.
What will they intervene with?
The French and British economies are in shambles and clueless politicians in power in those countries want to create a diversion.
What is better than starting a world war!
Disgusting.
”War! Good god y’all! What is it good for?! Absolutely nothing!!!
Say it again!”
I mean, gods-dammit France, how have you fared against the Russians before ?
;-}
Then Russia Can Fire Oreshnik Into Paris…!
Prof. Ted Postol Assessing Russian Attack on Ukraine by Hypersonic Missile
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h8LvIkGkfes
Hypersonic at booster phase and hypersonic at re-entry phase…!!!
They will have about the same luck as firing French Fries at this point
Strap Macron to one of them.
im sure the war will over by christmas https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fa405317de9681f2ada08b8387d52067161480b5ab571dd8d12aa674935dc6e8.jpg
Are the Russians developing an Avangard-type missile that delivers multiple thermobaric warheads?
During the 1980s, the US DoD was tasked with developing the neutron bomb. The theoretical underpinning was to create a bomb that killed humans but left infrastructure untouched.
https://www.rt.com/russia/608153-thermobaric-strike-mod-video/
Good observation. How easy it is to forget that Avangard has been tested more than 2. years ago, and is in production.
Avangard is a true MIRV, that is R=reentry, is a true reentry from space. Its key characteristics are: reentry vehicles that travel at hyper-hypersonic soead, in semi-plasma state, and can chose to be KINNETIC, that is have no explosives. But their impact through saturation and individual maneuvering capability in fact REPLACES the nuclear option. That is the KEY consequence.
The Oreshnik in fact is nothing more than an adapted Avangard to intermediate range capability and battlefield use. Russia never invested in tactical nuclear technology as its use would lead to nuclear war and total annihilation anyway. Instead invested energy into non-nuclear options.
Unlike Avangard Oreshnik is NOT a re-entry vehicle, as it only skims the atmosphere, getting a bounce from it resulting in a longer range. It hit the target in Ukraine kinnetically causing destruction without explosion and fire.
Oreshnik is designed to make tactical nuclear weapons obsolete.
Seems Russia has calibrated the response well. It might give a pause long enough to prevent this administration (whoever that is) forcing choices on the next administration.
This is why Russa is keeping nuclear issue front and center., it needs translating. Russia has a non-nuclear strategic options, and non-nuclear tactical options. It has no need to use nuclear triad. But it keeps on reminding us over and over and over again — do not resort to nuclear gamble and hope to prevail. Russia has nuclear option too if we insist on destroying the planet.
All this was made public at least since March 2018 when all the directions in military were announced by Putin. He was not listened
to then. I am not sure anybody is listening now.
There are at least two new systems announced in 2018, but kept under wraps — and not a peep. This is nuclearly powered missile Buravestnik (North Wind Herald), and nuclearly powered autonomous submarine drone/probe Poseidon.
This administration got itself in a corner. It will take fresh thinking to assess the situation.
Talk About repeating history as INSANITY…Dammmnn.
Moscow in winter is lovely,remember?
USA, the very evil empire. France, U.K., Germany its LAP DOGS.
What might happen when Russia fires back?!
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/11/25/uk-sanctions-30-more-ships-in-russias-shadow-fleet-a87120
”Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone”…JT
“I’ve seen fire, I’ve seen rain! I’ve seen lonely days that I thought would never end…But I always though that I’d see you again!”…JT
Thank you, France. Thank you, Biden.
History books in France don't go back to the year 1812. What's that saying again about doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result?