Ukrainian service members fire an M777 howitzer at a frontline in Donetsk, Ukraine, on 23 November. Photograph: RFE/RL/Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters
The Daily Beast: Kremlin Threatens ‘Whole New Level’ of War Over Western Weapons
Russia is on edge as American and European leaders meet in Europe to discuss delivering more weapons and military aid packages to Ukraine, with the Kremlin warning that more deliveries of weaponry to Kyiv will bring the conflict to a “new level.”
“This will mean taking the conflict to a whole new level, which certainly will not bode well in terms of global European security,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, according to TASS. “Naturally, the very discussion of the acceptability of supplying Ukraine with arms which would allow strikes to be delivered on Russian soil… is potentially extremely dangerous.”
The threat comes days after Ukrainian troops arrived at Fort Sill in Oklahoma for training on Patriot missile systems. It also comes on the eve of a meeting between U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley, and the Ukraine Defense Contact Group Friday at Ramstein Air Base this week to discuss military aid packages for Ukraine aimed at thwarting an expected Russian offensive in 2023.
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Update: ‘Dangerous’: Kremlin on discussion of supplying arms to Kiev for strikes on Russian soil (TASS)
WNU Editor: It is hard to believe that this war can reach a “whole new level”. But it looks like we are going to enter this “new level” in the coming weeks. High intensity warfare of the likes that we have not seen yet in this war, and not seen since the Second World War in Europe.