The Kremlin threatened on Monday USA of possible “consequences” and summoned his ambassador in Russiathe day after a Ukrainian bombing in Crimea that, according to Moscow, was carried out with American missiles.
The spokesman for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov, described the bombing against Sevastopol as “barbarism” and accused Washington of “killing Russian children.”
Two of the four victims of the attack on the peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014 were minors.
“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“he insisted Peskov.
“Time will tell what they will be” the consequences, he added.
The Russian Foreign Ministry announced in turn that it had summoned Lynne Tracy, the American ambassador in Moscow, to inform her “retaliatory measures”.
Washington ““has the same responsibility as the kyiv regime in this atrocity,” he later added in a statement. The attack “will not go unpunished”, he insisted.
Russia claims that Sunday’s bombing of Sevastopol was carried out with US-supplied ATACMS missiles loaded with cluster warheads.
Moscow-appointed authorities in Crimea said the missiles hit an area with beaches and hotels in the port city.
In a meeting with international media at the beginning of the month, Russian President Vladimir Putin had criticized the shipment of long-range weapons to Ukraine by Western powers.
“If someone thinks that it is possible to supply such 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 installations will be hit?“Of countries that act against Russia?” he had asked.
“That is, the response may be asymmetric. we will think about it”, he had added to the journalists.
Peskov also referred to statements by Putin, who assured that Western countries provided data to Ukraine for the bombings.
“Crimea is Ukraine“Andréi Yermak, head of the Ukrainian president’s office, insisted on Monday.
An adviser to the Ukrainian president, Mikhail Podoliak, in turn suggested that Crimea was a legitimate military objective.
Source: Gestion
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