Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has threatened to “respond accordingly” if Britain goes ahead with supplying tank ammunition containing depleted uranium to the Ukrainian armed forces.
Following talks in Moscow with China’s leader Xi Jinping, Putin raised concerns about the ammunition Britain was supplying to the government in Kyiv, along with a squadron of Challenger 2 battle tanks.
With Xi sitting beside him, Putin said: “It looks like the West indeed intends to fight Russia until the last Ukrainian. If that happens, Russia will respond accordingly, given that the collective West is starting to use weapons with a nuclear component.”
Tim Ripley, a defence analyst and author of “Little Green Men: The Inside Story of Russia’s New Military Power” said it was, “just the latest sort of twist in the propaganda wars.”…