Watch Russian Ambassador to the UK Andrei Kelin’s interview with Sky News presenter Mark Austin (21 November 2024)
Watch Russian Ambassador to the UK Andrei Kelin’s interview with Sky News presenter Mark Austin (21 November 2024)
Key talking points:
• We have made multiple warnings that [the use of Western] missiles to strike inside Russia will be a serious escalation. And despite these warnings, the US administration supported by France and the UK has made a deliberate decision to carry out these strikes. This seriously escalates the situation and can lead to a collision between the nuclear powers.
• We have been assured many times by the British side that they would only use Storm Shadow cruise missiles on the territory of Ukraine. What has happened is a deliberate cheating. The UK is now directly involved in this conflict because this firing [of the missiles] cannot happen without NATO and British staff.
• Our nuclear deterrence doctrine has been closely adapted to the realities of the current conflict. And I hope that it will be carefully studied by Western experts in order to understand t...
Источник: Embassy of the Russian Federation in London