Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that people should take threats against Russia seriously, plan adequate responses in advance, and strengthen the armed forces and navy.
“We all understand the increasing degree of geopolitical tension in the modern world; we hear regular threats against Russia from the elites of a number of countries and even see concrete actions to implement these threats. Naturally, we must take this as seriously as possible, calculate all the possible risks, plan adequate responses, and strengthen our armed forces and navy,” Putin said at a meeting on shipbuilding.
The president stated that Russia needs to develop remote threat detection systems, including one that uses drones, to protect the Russian navy from long-range missile attacks.
‘Putin will not take the bait’. Russia will respond prudently to the Crimea attack.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be goaded into a reckless and impulsive response to Ukraine’s killing of Russian civilians in Sevastopol on Sunday, said filmmaker Regis Tremblay, but will carefully consider his options as he works to construct a multipolar world order.
“This has been a war—a declared war—by the United States of America against Russia. Ukraine has been a pawn,” said the documentarian on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program.
Nevertheless, the filmmaker noted that “Putin has never acted impulsively.”
“Will Russia respond? Yes, it will certainly respond, but not in a way that will trigger World War Three,” said the filmmaker. “President Putin has made it very clear that he is not going to do anything that would inadvertently trigger a nuclear war between the United States and Russia.”
“Sergey Lavrov, the foreign minister, has been travelling throughout Asia and through Africa, signing long-term agreements for development, strategic partnerships, and military partnerships,” he noted. “This is, to me, how Russia is responding to the never-ending United States escalation against Russia. Putin will not take the bait.”
The Ukrainian strike on the Russian city of Sevastopol using US-provided ATACMS munitions constitutes terrorism and an act of war by the United States, independent US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said.
“The word that describes this is terrorism. It is an act of war by the US against Russian civilians,” Kennedy emphasised in a statement via social media platform X.
The politician emphasized that only the US Congress has the authority to declare war. Kennedy insisted that lawmakers should stop the “unaccountable and reckless hawks” directing US President Joe Biden.
