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Russia threatens to target deeper into Ukraine after Britain and US supply it with long-range missiles

RUSSIA warned against the supply of long-range missile to Ukraine again yesterday, threatening to target government buildings and transport infrastructure in response. 

Head of the Russian parliament’s defence committee Andrey Kartapolov made the threat after Britain announced that it was sending an unspecified number of M270 launchers, which can fire precision-guided rockets up to 50 miles.

“Russia will respond to the supply of multiple-launch rocket systems and long-range missiles to Ukraine by targeting transport infrastructure facilities and government buildings,” he told reporters in Moscow. 

Britain has followed Washington’s lead, with the United States announcing a similar weapons package on Sunday. 

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Lavrov accused both Britain and the US of lying over the continued eastward expansion of Nato and their promises that “no state will strengthen its security at the expense of other states.”

Both countries have been accused of pouring fuel on the fire and extending the war in Ukraine instead of trying to secure a negotiated peace with Russia.

Mr Lavrov said that Russia would respond to the long-range missiles by sending troops further into Ukraine.

“The longer the range of armaments that you will supply, the further away we will move from our territory the line beyond which neonazis can threaten the Russian Federation,” he told a press conference. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted that Russian forces have the upper hand in Severodonetsk, where fierce fighting continues to rage. 

“There’s more of them, they are more powerful, but we have a chance to hold the advance,” he said. 

Mayor of the eastern city Oleksandr Stryuk insisted that the Ukrainians could “beat back attacks on the city,” with neither side prepared to withdraw. 

CIA-backed broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) was fined 20 million roubles by a Moscow court yesterday for disseminating fake content about the war in Ukraine. 

Russia’s Interfax news agency reported that the media organisation, which was established as an anti-communist propaganda outfit during the cold war, refused to take down false reports of death tolls “as well as extremist statements about Russians.”

RFE/RL suspended its operations in Russia in March after it was declared bankrupt following a number of crippling fines.

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