As he criticised the West’s delivery of long-range weapons to Ukraine, Vladimir Putin argued that Moscow could respond “in kind” by deploying similar arms to other countries to attack Western targets.
Putin warned that the use of Western weapons would “mark their direct involvement” in a war against Russia.
Putin said that because using such Western weapons for striking Russian territory involves military personnel of the respective countries controlling the missiles and selecting targets, Moscow could take “asymmetrical” steps.
That could include giving such weapons to others to target facilities of respective countries elsewhere in the world, he explained.
“If they consider it possible to deliver such weapons to the combat zone to launch strikes on our territory and create problems for us, why don’t we have the right to supply weapons of the same type to some regions of the world where they can be used to launch strikes on sensitive facilities of the countries that do it to Russia?” he said.
“We will think about it,” he said