Sputnik International By Oleg Burunov
Moscow has repeatedly warned that Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory using Western-supplied military hardware could lead to a direct conflict with NATO.
Kiev failed to notify Berlin of its use of a German-supplied Patriot air defense system “at least once to take action” against Russian targets, according to the German newspaper Bild.
The strike was reportedly followed by “angry calls from Berlin and Washington and the threat to stop” supplying Kiev with anti-aircraft missiles if such an incident happened again.
The AFP news agency, meanwhile, quoted unnamed sources as saying that the Kiev regime had used Western weapons “on several occasions” to launch strikes against Russian territory, most recently against the southern city of Krasnodar.
The sources did not specify what objects had been targeted. The Russian Defense Ministry had earlier said that the Ukrainian armed forces were constantly trying to attack the territory of Russia’s Krasnodar region using aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters Tuesday that some NATO members, especially smaller ones, “should know what they are playing with” when they suggest allowing Kiev to launch strikes on Russian territory. He added that Moscow was keeping a close eye on such statements…
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