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Russia threatens Britain with retaliation if involvement in Ukraine war deepens

www.pbs.org Russia threatens Britain with retaliation if involvement in Ukraine war deepens

Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials.

After summoning the British ambassador to the Foreign Ministry, Moscow warned that Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory with U.K.-supplied weapons could bring retaliatory strikes against British military facilities and equipment on Ukrainian soil or elsewhere.

The remarks came on the eve of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration to a fifth term in office and in a week when Moscow on Thursday will celebrate Victory Day, its most important secular holiday, marking its defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

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Russia threatens Britain with retaliation if involvement in Ukraine war deepens

www.pbs.org /newshour/world/russia-threatens-britain-with-retaliation-if-involvement-in-ukraine-war-deepens

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Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if the Kremlin isn't happy with the current state of the war with Ukraine, that probably wouldn't produce a situation more to their liking.
What's Russia gonna do? Lose on two fronts instead of just the one?
Russia has lost half a dozen ships to a nation with no navy. And they want to throw down with one as experienced as the UK? "Attacking the home of Storm Shadow missiles is a good thing" is the thought of an idiot.
We’re gonna need a community called “RussiaThreatens” like “ChinaWarns” where it just collects these stories. Yeah, we know.
You're already getting your ass kicked by Ukraine, you're not scaring anyone with threats anymore.
Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities

This is equivalent to USA threatening to strike North Korean, Iranian or Chinese facilities (all of whom have been arming Russia). No such threats have been made.

Just so we're clear who's escalating things.
Why do the biggest assholes always have to rattle their sabers the most? Are they compensating for something?
It seems the Brits are doing something right, keep it going. Would love to see our chancellor doing the same instead of repeating the russian propaganda...
There's something weird in Putin's hand... it's super blurry... I think he's shaking it really, really fast... hang on, I have a high-speed camera. Let's see what it is.

Oh, well that makes sense. Pray, continue.
If Russia attacks the UK can Ukraine attack China and Iran?

Probably a bad idea but that's what they're saying isn't it?

Edit: and given russias use of China and Iran weaponry, if it happens to be from them, the UK can attack them too now!
Like they've been threatening for the last two years? They're out of escalation options that are useful for them.
"China's final warning"

I'd take it more seriously if the West actually became involved, but regardless of Frenchmen "shooting their mouth off" nobody's sending troops to fight a nuclear power.
it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons

Oh no, not drills. If we're not careful they're going to pretend to use nukes, that's very scary.
are you winning vlad? are you?

coz doesnt look like that if you need to threat the world with nuclear weapons.
Aren't they really just threatening to move them up in the queue?
Lmao fucking try it, Putin. Make our day.
Is this a rerun? Sounds really familiar
Russia stop! Poland can only get so erect!
Come on then if you think you’re hard enough
Send more Stormshadows!

For real though, attack the UK and you're gonna have the USAF and RAF flying sorties over Moscow within a week
they wont. They're too cowardly.
We call this behavior "Säbelrasseln" in german.
Russia sure talks a lot. They've already lost credibility as a major power. All they have left is "blow everything up", including themselves.
Kinda doubt hes in much condition to mouth off too much
said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons

That explains why they had everyone dig into the radioactive soil around Chernobyl and get radiation poisoning. Gotta simulate that nuclear fallout environment "for practice"
OH NO!!!!.... Anyway. ~Some British Dude
Lol
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