Ambassador Andrey Kelin, in an interview with Sky News' Mark Austin, also warned the West to carefully consider the lower bar Russia has set up for using nuclear weapons. This warning comes after Western allies permitted Ukraine to use long-range missiles to strike inside Russia.
British Storm Shadow missiles were launched into Russia just days after President Joe Biden approved the same policy change for Ukraine's stockpile of United States-supplied ATACMS missiles. (Related: Russia confirms WWIII COMING SOON after Biden green-lights long-range missile strikes.)
Russian President Vladimir Putin replied on Thursday, Nov. 21, by stating Russia had tested a recent intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) in a strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.
He warned it could also be utilized against military facilities of nations that permit Kyiv to use their own missiles.
"We believe that we have the right to use our weapons against military facilities of the countries that allow to use their weapons against our facilities. And in case of escalation of aggressive actions, we will respond resolutely in a mirror way," Putin said.
Britain permitted Ukraine to use its missiles over the border
The Russian ambassador told Sky News that Britain permitting Ukraine to use its missiles over the border had dragged the U.K. into the conflict.
"Absolutely, Britain is now directly involved in this war, because this firing cannot happen without NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] staff, British staff as well. The U.S. administration, support by France and the UK, has made a deliberate decision to make these strikes, which seriously escalates the situation, and it can bring a collision between the nuclear powers," Kelin said.
Kelin called it "deliberate cheating" of the U.K., alleging that he had received several guarantees from the British government that Storm Shadow missiles would only be used inside Ukrainian territory.
In reply to Kelin's remarks, a Downing Street spokesperson announced the government would not be "deterred or distracted by commentary from Vladimir Putin or the Russian ambassador."
Putin again raised the specter of nuclear weapons recently when he approved changes that lower the threshold for a nuclear strike.
Several people have disregarded the move as empty saber rattling, but Kelin told Sky News he hoped the change "would be carefully considered by Western experts" as underestimating the possibility of escalation is "dangerous."
There were early concerns that Russia had deployed an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), but Putin later disclosed it was an experimental "Oreshnik" medium-range missile flying 10 times the speed of sound.
Security cameras caught the moment many projectiles streaked through the night sky and caused a series of powerful blasts in Dnipro.
The U.S. Department of Defense earlier said that Oreshnik was based on the RS-26 Frontier, a nuclear-capable missile that experts said confuses the lines between an ICBM and an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM).
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