Putin threatens NATO with nuclear weapons if allies send troops to Ukraine

2024-02-29 11:34:33

The president of Russia, Vladimir Putinwarned this Thursday the countries that are part of NATO that the possible deployment of Alliance military personnel in Ukraine would bring with it “tragic” consequences. A few words that come after the French president, Emmanuel Macron, spoke about this possibility during the Ukraine Support Conference that was held last Monday in Paris.

“They have begun to talk about the possibility of sending military contingents of the I’LL TAKEbut we remember the fate of those who once sent troops to the territory of our country, but now the consequences for possible interventionists will be much more tragic,” said the Russian president during his State of the Nation Address in both chambers of the Russian Parliament.

“They know, we also have weapons that can hit targets on their territory,” Putin warned, after which he noted that Western countries are “scaring the whole world and threatening to provoke a nuclear conflict leading, therefore, to the destruction of civilization.” “Don’t you understand? They are people who have not gone through difficult tests. “They have already forgotten what war is,” he added.

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The Russian president has said that The West is trying to make the Russian Federation make the same mistake as the Soviet Union of being involved in a arms raceto which the USSR dedicated 13 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), when Moscow will allocate 6 percent to defense in 2024, and has assured that this “trick” will not prosper, although it has announced that they will continue developing the country’s military-technical complex.

New Russian weapons

Vladimir Putin has assured that Russia has fulfilled the development plans for all the newest missiles and weapons announced by the Kremlin in 2018, part of which have already been delivered to the Russian Armed Forces and, he added, even some of the They have already been tested in combat in the ukrainian waramong which he has highlighted Kinzhal hypersonic missile.

As he explained, the latest tests of the Burevestnik cruise missile and the Poseidon underwater drone. “Work continues on a whole series of brand new weapons systems. We will soon hear about new achievements of our scientists and weapons manufacturers,” he added, after which he recalled that the first Sarmat intercontinental missiles have also been delivered to the Russian army. with nuclear capability.