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Russia says longer-range U.S. missiles for Kyiv would cross red line

Published 09/15/2022, 07:37 AM
Updated 09/15/2022, 12:43 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova speaks during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg, Russia June 15, 2022. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that if the United States decided to supply Kyiv with longer-range missiles, it would cross a "red line" and become "a party to the conflict".

In a briefing, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova added that Russia "reserves the right to defend its territory".

Washington has openly supplied Ukraine with advanced GMLRS rockets, fired from HIMARS launchers, that can hit targets up to 80 km (50 miles) away.

"If Washington decides to supply longer-range missiles to Kyiv, then it will be crossing a red line, and will become a direct party to the conflict," Zakharova said.

U.S. officials say Ukraine has promised not to use U.S. rockets to strike Russia itself.

HIMARS launchers can also be used to fire longer-range ATACMS tactical missiles, which can have a range of up to 300 km. A senior Ukrainian official declined to say on Aug. 19 whether Kyiv now had ATACMS.

There has been no full public explanation of an attack on Aug. 9 that hit a Russian air base at Saky, around 200 km from the nearest Ukrainian-controlled territory, on the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow captured in 2014 and considers Russian territory.

© Reuters. A view shows a M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is fired in an undisclosed location, in Ukraine in this still image obtained from an undated social media video uploaded on June 24, 2022 via Pavlo Narozhnyy/via REUTERS

Ukraine has requested and received large quantities of weapons from the United States and other Western allies to help it resist the Russian armed forces that were sent into Ukraine in February.

Moscow says it sent troops to prevent Ukraine being used as a platform for Western aggression and to defend Russian speakers. Kyiv and its Western allies dismiss these arguments as baseless pretexts for an imperial-style war of aggression.

Latest comments

Russia is trying to get a news order in the world no i think a old world where everybody is afraid of each other and destroy democracy putin is still living in the cold war and that has cost many incense life so-far children and mothers papa’s from ukraine and Russia but putin don’t care about his own people
Sure, we can only supply rocks and water guns, but it's not a problem destroying a country.
I was replying to carlos saying 'how fragile the "New World Order" is' and implying a Russia order is better.  Of course he deliberately misconstrued and went on a whiny rant.
Putin mind as well just say any arms to Ukraine would be crossing the red line. It is a dead end war for Putin. It is time for Putin to admit his mistake and come to the negotiating table.
Russians army are finish
Putin is a ice cold fool
Its so sad, hope it ends soon, but reports have said its gonna be a long term war💔
Putin has crossed the red line when he invaded ukraine
How many life should die because of putins war
Comments of some people here are insane propsing Ukraine to get unto Rudia territory and shell Rusia Cities.Russia has the largest nuclear weapon arsenal in the entire work, if Ukraine and US Do that, Putin will use nuclear for sure. A nuclear war will destroy the world, you , me and our families Do not provoke an sleeping giant. We must use diplomacy, we just need competent negotiators.
Russia has already said it'll use nukes outside of situations where its territories are attacked.  And I wouldn't call it "sleeping" considering it's war-mongering globally.
Would have been better if you stayed away. I can see from your comments that you are not contributing to the debate except with conspiracy theories that belong on fox news
  Russia is more corrupt.
Things that are good, beautiful and precious are usually fragile, and worthy of preservation.
... unlike carlos' disposable accounts.
If russian leave ukraine the war will stop
Deeeeth to Putin
nobody is afraid of Russia anymore
russia is attacking and taking territory within ukraine but ukraine promises not to atrack within Russia? seems a bit unequal as it is.
the people who attacked and are murdering their neighbors are saying there is a line?
I predict that Maria Zakharova will soon defect to Ukraine.
Ukraine isn't just "reserves the right to defend its territory", it's actively defending.
Must be hard for Russian foreign ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova to defend Putin (alias Reek from Game of thrones) he belongs to Ramsay Bolton (China president XI) who controls what Putins says and do. Xi could end the war in Ukraine tomorrow by saying he would no longer buy Putins Oil and Gas and Putin would be broke.
  Who benefits from the use of those weapons?
The US has always stockpiled weapons.
russia pays with the frozen assets
fix our country 1st, then worry about the obama era bio research facilities which Russia is going after
@jon. You are parodying a brainwashed Russian, right?
Some people don't think the US can do more than 1 thing at a time
"then worry about the obama era bio research facilities which Russia is going after"  -- judging from recent events, Russia is doing a terrible job going after these phantom bio research labs
Long range missiles should be given to ukraine. Russians are using long range missiles on a daily basis to terrorise the ukrainian civilians everywhere in ukraine. But they must not attack russia itself because that would give putin an excuse to make general conscription and escalate the war. The missiles should be used to throw the russians out of luhansk, Kherson, crimea and donbas so that Ukraine regains all their territories.
Any military assets in Russia near Ukraine & being actively used to attack Ukraine are fair targets.  That's way more courtesy than Russia has shown Ukraine.
 "They still have the possibility to escalate this into a bigger war with more russian troops"  -- if Russia had more troops they would have used in Ukraine already.....Russia is struggling to raise more troops without full mobilisation, and those few units they have managed to get, they can't equip them properly
Russia has increasing been sending its old and released criminals to invade Ukraine.  Expect to see even more war crimes and Russian casualties.
nobody cares what russia says. it's time for a serious upgrade of Ukraines offensive capabilities, so yhey can drive the fascist invaders out once and for all
agree the russians have done nothing but crossing red lines since that start of the war in 2014 with no consequences, but this time Putin has miscalculated and the bully will be thrown out of the courtyeard.
Ukraine needs to take the war to Russia.
Russia is crossing all red lines there are, so why would Ukraine not cross these lines. Bomb the russians out of Ukraine and Krim as soon as possible!!
Russia crossed Ukraine's border lines.
putin is melting down and panicking! go ahead make our day! lil ukraine is taking him to the woodshed!
But their Country is being Destroyed. It will take generations to rebuild Ukraine.
no problem the US will give them a couple trillion to rebuild.
Frozen Russian assets will justifiably pay to rebuild Ukraine.
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