www.zerohedge.com BY TYLER DURDEN
In some of the Kremlin’s strongest words yet denouncing Western arms shipments, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned Ukraine that newly ramped up arms transfers including US missile systems being sent to KievĀ risks drawing a third country into the war.
In the Wednesday statements, heĀ accused Ukraine of seeking to involve outside countries, and slammed the missile transfer as marking a ‘direct provocation’. His words come on the heels of Biden on Tuesday nightĀ announcingĀ longer range missile systems for Ukraine, which however likely can’t reach Russian territory, given they are short to “medium range” systems. Moscow previously called the White House’s expressed desire to avoid direct confrontation with Russia a “rational” policy.
But Lavrov took the opportunity to warn hawks both in the US and Europe: “I will say it frankly: not everyone in the European Union, especially in its northern part [understands this]. There are politicians,Ā who are ready to do this madness in order to satisfy their ambitions. But serious countries in the EU naturally are well aware that such scenarios are unacceptable,” the top diplomat saidĀ accordingĀ to state media.
