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Russia Warns U.S., Says Weapons Sent To Ukraine Are ‘Legitimate Targets’

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Russia Warns U.S., Says Weapons Sent To Ukraine Are ‘Legitimate Targets’

Russia has intensified its assault on the U.S. as it warns that weapons sent to Ukraine in support of the ongoing war are ‘legitimate targets’.

As Russian forces kept up their bombardment across Ukraine on Saturday, capturing the eastern outskirts of a key Southern port city, the Kremlin warned the US that it would consider convoys carrying weapons to Ukraine to be “legitimate targets.”

Sergei Ryabkov; Deputy Foreign Minister said on Saturday that shipments of Western weapons to Ukraine would be attacked by Russian forces, according to Russia’s ITAR-TASS news agency. Western nations’ “thoughtless transfer” of portable air defense and anti-tank missile systems to Kyiv, Ryabkov said, demonstrated “the escalators component of Washington’s policy.”

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“We have warned the US that the US-orchestrated inundation of Ukraine with weapons from some countries is not just a dangerous move, but also an action that makes these convoys legitimate targets,” Ryabkov said. The Russian diplomat did not say if Russian forces would target such convoys in Poland or Romania, NATO countries that border Ukraine.

The tough talk came on a day that Russian forces sustained “heavy losses in manpower and equipment” in areas northeast of Kyiv and were prevented from regaining a foothold on previously captured frontiers, according to the Ukrainian military, Early in the morning, loud explosions reverberated near the capital, and Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said it had evacuated about 2,000 people from areas near Kyiv.

Despite holding off enemy forces from the capital, Ukrainian officials admitted a bitter defeat, acknowledging that Russia had seized part of Mariupol, a strategic city in the southeastern Donetsk region that could allow it to build a land corridor from pro-Moscow enclaves in the east to Russian-annexed Crimea in the south. Russian shelling of the city hit a mosque sheltering more than 80 people, including children, and repeated efforts to evacuate 430,000 residents have failed as their convoys come under artillery fire. Dozens of buses loaded with humanitarian supplies were reported to be attempting to reach the city.

Russia’s intensified assault on the cities and villages of Ukraine came as the United States continued to insist that diplomacy still had a role in the conflict, and as the US and its NATO allies continue to supply Ukraine with tons of weaponry.

On Friday, President Biden stepped up economic pressure on Moscow, revoking trade relations with Russia and banning Russian products such as diamonds and vodka. He again resisted Ukraine’s demands for a no-fly zone over Ukraine.

“We will not fight a war against Russia in Ukraine,” Biden said at the White House. “Direct confrontation between NATO and Russia is World War III.”

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