Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov “promises” retaliation after the latest Ukrainian attacks on Moscow with Western missiles, warning that Russia's “patience” is “running out.”
In particular, Lavrov said in statements while accompanying Vladimir Putin on a visit to Kazakhstan that “Russia's patience has a limit.”
“There are many sayings that reflect the character of our people: 'Measure seven times and cut only once', 'God was patient and entrusted us to be patient', but patience inevitably ends if subjected to endless testing,” Lavrov said characteristically.
He argued that Russia was trying not to overstep the limits, using the phrase “we were trying not to jump off the horse, because once we do it it will be very difficult to stop,” as reported by ERT.
These threats follow the “green light” that Ukraine has received from its Western allies for attacks on Russian territory, which immediately afterwards opened fire on military installations in Russia last Tuesday and Thursday with American ATACMS missiles and British Storm Shadow missiles, which have a range of up to 300 kilometers.
Russia retaliated by striking a weapons factory in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro with the new hypersonic ballistic missile Oresnik, thus formalizing the revision of its nuclear doctrine to lower the limit for the use of nuclear weapons.
However, two new Ukrainian attacks with ATACMS missiles followed, on Saturday and Monday, on a Russian S-400 anti-aircraft battery and an airport in the Russian province Kursk, which was also the target of the previous Storm Shadow missile attack. Russia claims to have shot down 10 of the 13 missiles launched by Ukraine in these last two attacks and is preparing new retaliation, while admitting that the missiles that were not shot down reached their targets and even caused casualties among the Russian military.
Source: CNN Greece
