A Russian MP has issued a grave warning to Ukraine that they have crossed Vladimir Putin’s “red lines” and they are “provoking nuclear conflict.”
Ukrainian forces have captured more than 80 villages and their largest town Sudzha in ten days since they invaded Russia.
Appearing on Newsnight Maria Butina said that Kyiv is aiming to “escalate the conflict” and Russia will take back all their territory quickly.
Butina warned, “Russia will do everything to protect its territory”, she said. “They’re attacking nuclear plants…yes, they’re provoking a nuclear conflict.. they have no understanding of what it’s going to be.”
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“By trying to get PR points from the West, they actually put in danger the whole world.”
The Kyiv Post reported that Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza warned Putin will come after Ukraine in a very brutal manner.
Wyborcza wrote, “Moscow is undoubtedly preparing its typical reaction to military defeats, namely to fire indiscriminately at Ukrainian territory, including civilian targets, with everything it has at its disposal.
“Putin won’t hesitate this time either. He needs to save face after this embarrassment. As the opposition member Leonid Gozman rightly remarked, ‘a tsar who can’t defend his territory cannot remain tsar’.”
Poland’s Rzeczpospolita wrote, “The Ukrainian offensive has also brought victory on a completely different, less obvious front.
“It is telling that the Western states didn’t initially comment on these events.
“They were probably observing the progress of the Ukrainian armed forces but also waiting for Moscow’s reaction. It was only after Putin ended the Security Council meeting without declaring a general mobilisation or martial law that the first comments appeared, including from the US and Germany.”
German’s Handelsblatt warned, “On the one hand, the advance widens the front, which can hardly be held anyway. It also ties up Russian forces, at least temporarily.
“But the Ukrainian soldiers who are now fighting in Russia are absent from sections of the front that threaten to become porous. … However, the advance is also risky for a second reason.
“The West has authorised the use of weapons it has supplied against military targets in the Russian border region. But should German Leopard tanks fall into the hands of the Russians during the attack, Vladimir Putin would happily use them as evidence for his narrative that NATO is actually waging war against Russia.”
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