Russia will launch attacks on a new set of Ukrainian targets if the US starts supplying Kyiv with longer-range missiles, president Vladimir Putin has warned.
According to the TASS news agency, Mr Putin told the state television channel Rossiya-1 that, if such missiles are supplied, “we will strike at those targets which we have not yet been hitting.”
Despite suggesting that the West’s sending of more advanced rocket systems would exacterbate the conflict, Putin said that it will not not bring any fundamental changes to the battlefield.
“We understand that this supply (of advance rocket systems) from the United States and some other countries is meant to make up for the losses of this military equipment,” he said.
“This is nothing new,” he said. “It doesn’t change anything in essence.”
It follows reports that multiple explosions rocked Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv early on Sunday, hitting unspecified “infrastructure” targets.
This morning’s attacks mark the first assault on the Ukrainian capital in weeks after a period of relative calm in the city and its suburbs.
