Growing amounts of US military assistance, “would mean even broader involvement of military personnel in the hostilities and could entail possible consequences,” Russia’s foreign ministry said.
Russia s Foreign Ministry warned Thursday that if the U.S. delivers sophisticated air defense systems to Ukraine, those systems and any crews that accompany them would be a “legitimate target” for the Russian military, a blunt threat that was quickly rejected by Washington.
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Russia’s Foreign Ministry is warning that if the U.S. delivers sophisticated air defense systems to Ukraine, those systems and any crews that accompany them would be a “legitimate target” for the Russian military
The sharp rhetoric from the Kremlin comes after reports that the U.S. could send Patriot missile systems to Ukraine, which has urgently requested them for months.