The tensions between NATO and Russia they continue to grow. This Monday, the spokesman for the Russian presidency Dmitri Peskov warned that it is possible that The United States faces “consequences” behind the bombing carried out by Ukraine on Crimea that took place this Sunday: “It is evident that the participation of the United States in the fighting, its direct participation, which entails the death of Russian citizens, it has to have consequences“.
Russia claimed that Sunday’s bombing of Sevastopol was carried out with ATACMS missiles supplied by the United States, loaded with cluster warheads. “Time will tell what the consequences will be.“, Peskov said.
The attack on a Ukrainian in Crimea
Last Sunday, Ukraine attacked military positions of the Russian occupiers in Crimea. According to the Russian governor in Sevastopol – imposed by Moscow – the bombing, which fell on an area of beaches and hotels, It caused the death of five people, three of them minors, in addition to leaving more than a hundred injured.
“Unfortunately at this moment we have 124 victims“, he wrote on Telegram, detailing that among them there are five deceased people, “three minors and two adults”. In addition, the occupying authority indicated that “five children are in intensive care” in the Sevastopol hospital, in addition to seven seriously injured adults.
From the Kremlin they assured that the attack was carried out with American ATACMS missiles. He Moscow Defense Ministry assured that “responsibility for the deliberate missile bombing of civilians in Sevastopol lies primarily with Washington that supplied these weapons to Ukraine”, although they also targeted the Zelensky administration.
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov described the bombing of Sevastopol as “barbarism“and accused Washington of “kill russian children“However, for the Kremlin the responsibility also falls on the authorities in kyiv. Moscow’s defense ministry threatened attacks on Sevastopol, which hosts the headquarters of the Russian Fleet in the Black Sea,”will not remain unanswered”.
According to Russia, on Sunday its anti-aircraft defenses managed to intercept four of the five missileswhile the last one deviated from its objective due to the action of the defenses and hit the city. Sevastopol is a regular target of attacksbecause it is a key logistical point for the occupying army, which usually attack Ukrainian residential areas from Crimea.
The Russian Foreign Ministry in turn announced that it had summoned Lynne Tracy, the American ambassador in Moscow, to inform her “retaliatory measures“.
The tension between the United States and Russia
“It is evident that the participation of the United States in the fighting, its direct participation, which leads to the death of Russian citizens, has to have consequences,” said the spokesman for the Russian presidency. Furthermore, when asked about the consequences, Peskov responded that “time will tell what they will be.”
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According to the Kremlin, Washington “bears the same responsibility as the kyiv regime in this atrocity“he later added in a statement. The attack “will not go unpunished“, Peskov concluded.
Tension between the United States and Russia due to the armed conflict that is developing with Ukraine continues to increase. Already at the beginning of June, Vladimir Putinthe Russian president, criticized the shipment of long-range weapons to Ukraine by the Western allied powers.
“If someone thinks that it is possible to supply these weapons to a war zone to attack our territory (…) Why don’t we have the right to send weapons of the same type to regions of the world where sensitive facilities will be hit? of countries acting against Russia?“Putin declared.
According to the president, the response to this arms support “can be asymmetrical.” In line with this, Peskov also took up Putin’s statements and denounced that Western countries They provide data to Ukraine for bombing.
Source: Ambito
