Putin escalates row over Ukraine weapons
Newshour
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🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Vladimir Putin has issued a warning against the UK and US lifting their restrictions on Ukraine using long-range missiles against targets inside Russia. Britain and France have already sent Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine, but with the caveat that Kyiv can only fire them at targets inside its own borders.
From the tone of President Putin’s latest remarks, it’s clear he considers that the targeting of internationally recognised Russian territory with Western missile systems would take the conflict to a new level. What he didn’t make clear is how Moscow would respond.
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Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin Credit: ALEXEI DANICHEV/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN POOL
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Celia Hatton coming to you live from London. |
| 0:10.3 | Today fears of an all-out conflict between Russia and the West are being stoked by developments on multiple fronts. |
| 0:17.6 | Russia has accused six British diplomats of spying and it stripped them of their credentials. |
| 0:24.0 | News of the diplomats expulsion comes on the day that Britain's Prime Minister Kieer-Stormer |
| 0:29.2 | is due to meet President Biden at the White House. |
| 0:31.9 | They're expected to discuss Ukraine's demands for more Western |
| 0:35.5 | weapons, including the UK's storm shadow missiles. The White House meeting comes less than |
| 0:41.2 | a day after President Putin warned Western governments |
| 0:44.8 | not to let Ukraine target Russia with Western arms. |
| 0:49.2 | Saying that because NATO military personnel would have to program the missile's flight paths |
| 0:54.8 | such a move would drag the country's supplying keev into the war. |
| 0:59.7 | Poland's foreign minister Radak Shikorski told the BBC that the West could not trust |
| 1:04.5 | Vladimir Putin and should not be intimidated by him. |
| 1:07.3 | It's very difficult what to make of President Putin's words because he is such a liar. He lied that it wasn't his forces that did the Anschlus of |
| 1:17.3 | Crimea. He lied that he had absolutely no intentions of invading Ukraine and then he drew these red lines at every stage of our |
| 1:26.9 | assistance Ukraine, the supply of tanks, the supply of aircraft, these nuclear threats, he's lost credibility and therefore we |
| 1:36.1 | don't know whether he means it. So are things different now? Are President |
| 1:41.4 | Putin's threats credible. |
| 1:43.4 | I spoke to the BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner. |
| 1:47.0 | Well, it comes at a time of increasing tension at a fairly critical juncture in the Ukraine |
| 1:52.4 | war and the fact that Ukraine is making a very strong case |
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