The Russian government on Monday stressed that the delivery of armaments to Ukraine has «unpredictable» consequences and said that «escalation is the most dangerous path», amid the debate over the delivery of battle tanks to Kiev to cope with the Russian invasion.
«We have repeatedly said that escalation is the most dangerous path and the consequences can be unpredictable,» Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov said. «Our signals have not been perceived and Russia’s opponents continue to raise the stakes,» he added.
Thus, he stressed that «the objectives of the special military operation will be achieved in any case and all the military equipment that is arriving (to Ukraine) at an accelerated pace from various sources will be crushed, literally,» as reported by the Russian news agency Interfax.
Riyabkov said the possibility of such deliveries are part of a hybrid war between the United States and its allies and Russia, before noting that any arms shipments from Washington to Kiev will be «pulverized.»
The Russian deputy foreign minister’s remarks came a day after Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Russian State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, said that delivering offensive weapons to Kiev will lead to a «global catastrophe.»
Likewise, former Russian president and current deputy chairman of the country’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, warned last week that a Russian defeat in the war with Ukraine «could provoke the outbreak of a nuclear war.» «A defeat by a nuclear power in a conventional war may provoke the outbreak of a nuclear war,» he argued.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
