Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on Sunday that the supply of offensive armament from Western countries to Kiev will lead to a global disaster and retaliatory measures from Moscow with the use of more powerful weapons.
"Offensive weapons deliveries to the Kiev regime will lead to a global catastrophe. In the event Washington and NATO countries supply weapons that will be used to strike civilian cities and attempt to seize our territories, as they threaten, a retaliatory response with more powerful weapons will follow," Volodin said on Telegram.
The lower house speaker emphasized that members of the US Congress, lawmakers of the German parliament, the French National Assembly and other European parliaments "should realize their responsibility to humanity."
"With their decisions, Washington and Brussels are leading the world to a terrible war, to completely different hostilities than today, when strikes are carried out solely on the military and critical infrastructure of the Kiev regime. Given the technological superiority of Russian weapons, foreign politicians making such decisions [arms supply to Kiev] need to understand that this could end in a global tragedy that will destroy their countries," Volodin said.
The speaker added that since nuclear powers have never faced a situation that threatens the security of their citizens and the territorial integrity of the country, it is untenable to argue about the non-use of mass-destruction weapons in local conflicts in the past.
Western countries ramped up their military support for Ukraine after Russia launched a special military operation there on February 24, 2022, responding to calls for help from the republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. In April 2022, Moscow sent a note to NATO member states condemning their military assistance to Kiev.
State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin ©Marat Abulkhatin/Russian State
Speaker warns of powerful retaliation for weapons supplies to Kiev for attacks on Russia
Weapons supplies to Ukraine by the United States and NATO for attacks on Russia would lead to retaliatory use of more powerful armaments, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin warned on Sunday.
"Supplies of offensive weapons to the Kiev regime would lead to a global disaster. If Washington and NATO countries send arms that will be used for attacks on peaceful cities or attempts at occupying our lands, a threat they have been making, this would provoke retaliatory measures with the use of more powerful weapons," Volodin wrote on his Telegram channel.
The senior Russian lawmaker slammed as untenable other countries’ arguments that "nuclear powers never used weapons of mass destruction in local conflicts." "Those powers never faced a situation where the security of their citizens or their territorial integrity was at stake," he argued.
The State Duma speaker called on members of the US Congress, Germany’s Bundestag, France’s National Assembly and other European parliamentarians to realize their responsibility for humankind. "By their decisions, Washington and Brussels are pushing the world to a disastrous war - to military operations that will be quite different from what they have seen so far, when only military and critical infrastructure being used by the Kiev regime has been attacked. Given the technological superiority of Russian weapons, Western politicians who have been making such decisions should realize that this may lead to a global disaster that would wipe out their countries," Volodin concluded.
Ukrainians seen pulling Western-made armor to Svatovo in LPR — officer
Ukrainian forces have been bringing foreign-made armored vehicles to near Svatovo in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), Andrey Marochko, a retired LPR colonel, told TASS on Sunday.
Large numbers of armored vehicles for Ukrainian units are being moved into areas near Kupyansk, Marochko said. "Residents of Kharkov reported seeing two trains carrying armored vehicles to Kupyansk. Western-made armor has been unloaded at a sorting station and is being sent toward Svatovo," he specified.
Russian forces destroyed a warehouse for artillery ammunition of Ukraine’s armed forces, killing more than 35 enemy servicemen, the spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, said on Saturday.
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