"Europe is playing with fire in Ukraine"
On Tuesday, August 6, Ukraine attacked the Russian Kursk region, seizing a large swathe of territory in the largest foreign attack on Russia since World War II. Putin warned that the response to the attack would be forceful.
Putin's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that "the West is playing with fire by allowing Ukraine to attack our country with Western missiles".
He also sent a message to the United States: "A hypothetical third world war would not be limited to Europe alone". Since the outbreak of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia in 2022, the threat of this has been ever-present.
However, since 2022, when the war between Russia and Ukraine began, Putin has consistently stated that he does not want a conflict of this magnitude with US-led NATO.
(MH with AmBar/Source: Agency/Photo: Nikita Karimov/Unsplash)
