Russia Warns of "Unpredictable" Spiral if US Sends Patriot Missiles to Ukraine

By Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge

Russia has issued a fresh official condemnation Thursday after reports emerged in major US publications this week that the Biden White House is to imminently approve sending Patriot missile batteries to Ukraine. The prior day, the Kremlin initially reacted by declaring any inbound Patriot shipments a “legitimate target” for attack. 

The Russian Embassy in Washington has now issued an additional warning, saying the conflict could enter an “unpredictable” spiral if the US follows through with supplying Patriot anti-air systems. President Biden is still said to be “finalizing” plans to send what would mark the longest-range missiles to date for Ukraine’s forces.

 ”If this is confirmed, we will witness yet another provocative step by the [Biden] administration, which can lead to unpredictable consequences,” the fresh Russian Embassy statement said.

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Donetsk officials said Thursday the region was hit by the largest Ukrainian shelling & missile attack since 2014.

While Biden admin officials have tried to cast the potential move as purely defensive in nature, arguing stronger anti-air measures are needed to protect civilians and cities from the onslaught of expanded Russian aerial attacks, Moscow countered it will embolden Kiev to commit “new crimes” against civilians.

The Russian Embassy statement added that the new major weapons systems transfer “will only strengthen the Zelensky regime’s sense of impunity and push it to new crimes against civilians” in four annexed regions of the east and south.

Further warning that it could lead to showdown between nuclear-armed powers, the embassy stated: “Washington’s strategy causes enormous damage not only to the Russian-American relations, but also creates additional risks for global security.”

Meanwhile, also on Thursday a top pro-Russia official in Donetsk region said it has suffered the most intense wave of Ukrainian shelling since 2014.

According to an independent Moscow Times/AFP report: 

“At precisely 7 a.m., Ukrainian fascists subjected the center of Donetsk to the most massive strike since 2014,” Alexei Kulemzin wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

Separatist officials said on social media that one person was killed and nine more were injured.

Mayor Alexei Kulemzin said 40 rockets fired by Grad multiple rocket launchers landed on residential buildings, a hospital, a kindergarten and other buildings including a church.

Donetsk authorities subsequently published and circulated dozens of photos and videos documenting the aftermath of the large-scale shelling, calling it a “war crime”…

While for the past eight years civilians in Donbas who have long been seen by Kiev as more ‘Russia sympathetic’ (also given the prominence of the Russian language there) have come under periodic indiscriminate shelling by Ukrainian forces and nationalist militias, the resulting atrocities tend to receive scant coverage in mainstream Western media.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-warns-unpredictable-spiral-if-us-sends-patriot-missiles-ukraine

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