WASHINGTON (TND) — Russia has summoned the U. S. ambassador to give him a formal warning: Expect retaliation.
Laughter, immediately followed by panic, can be heard in a video posted on X via the Russian embassy in London. Taken on a beach in Sevastopol, the site of a missile attack introduced through Ukraine on Sunday.
The Russian government says more than 150 people were injured and at least four died, as well as two children, and blames the United States.
In a speech to the United Nations on Monday, Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, said: “Washington is concerned not only with offering the missiles, but also with full control of their air missions. “
The U. S. State Department appeared to dismiss the threat, recalling that it was Russia that started the war in Ukraine in the first place.
Instead, new fears of escalation are emerging.
Last week, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner warned in a speech at CSIS that Russia is contemplating violating a treaty it has signed by making plans to put anti-satellite nuclear weapons into orbit.
He suggested to President Biden that he declassify intelligence on the subject.
Also last week, Putin signed a defense pact with North Korea and recently brought one of his nuclear-powered submarines to Cuba, incredibly to the United States.
The U. S. is expected to approve another $150 million in ammunition for Ukraine. Last week, the Pentagon gave the Ukrainian military the green light to use longer-range missiles through the United States to hit targets in Russia.
Jones said there are two reasons for this.
“The first is aimed at its national audience. The economy is not doing very well. Selling this war as a war between Russia, the United States, and the West has been useful in proceeding to get aid for military purposes. What is a war?” he said.