Vladimir Putin has hinted Russia could supply long-range arms to other countries to strike Western targets, criticising the delivery of weapons from some NATO allies to Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin has taken questions from Western journalists for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, suggesting Moscow could send weapons to other regions to attack Western targets.
"Putin warned that Western arms deliveries to Ukraine were 'a very negative step', saying that donors were 'controlling' the weapons," an AFP report said. The claims made by the Russian President are not verified. He later explained his argument further, saying: “If they consider it possible to deliver such weapons to the combat zone to launch strikes on our territory and create problems for us, why don’t we have the right to supply weapons of the same type to some regions of the world where they can be used to launch strikes on sensitive facilities of the countries that do it to Russia?”Germany recently joined the United States in allowing Ukraine to “hit some targets on Russian soil” with weapons they...
The West currently supplies a range of defensive weapons to support Ukraine including tanks, drones, some fighter jets as well as ammunition and small arms.
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