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Lavrov says Ukrainian attack on Russia with US missiles escalates conflict

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The foreign minister says it is impossible to use these high-tech missiles without direct US military assistance.

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Russia claimed on Tuesday that Ukraine had fired six US-made ATACMS missiles into its western Bryansk region. (US Army pic)

MOSCOW:
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that an attack on Russia’s Bryansk region by Ukraine using US-supplied ATACMS missiles was a clear signal that the West wanted to escalate the Ukraine conflict.

“The fact that ATACMS were used repeatedly in the Bryansk region overnight is, of course, a signal that they want escalation,” Lavrov, speaking in Rio de Janeiro, told reporters.

“Without the Americans, it is impossible to use these high-tech missiles, as (Russian president Vladimir) Putin has repeatedly said,” Lavrov said.

Putin said on Sept 12 that Western approval for such Ukrainian strikes would mean “the direct involvement of Nato countries, the US and European countries in the war in Ukraine” because Nato military infrastructure and personnel would have to be involved in the targeting and firing of the missiles.

Russia said on Tuesday that Ukraine had fired six US-made ATACMS missiles into its western Bryansk region.

Lavrov said he hoped Moscow’s new nuclear doctrine, in which Putin lowered the threshold for a nuclear strike, would be attentively read.

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