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submitted 6 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine.

After summoning the British ambassador to the Foreign Ministry, Moscow warned that Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory with U.K.-supplied weapons could bring retaliatory strikes against British military facilities and equipment on Ukrainian soil or elsewhere.

The remarks came on the eve of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration to a fifth term in office and in a week when Moscow on Thursday will celebrate Victory Day, its most important secular holiday, marking its defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 116 points 6 months ago

Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if the Kremlin isn't happy with the current state of the war with Ukraine, that probably wouldn't produce a situation more to their liking.

[-] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 56 points 6 months ago

"You better watch out!!! We're getting our military crushed, and if you join in we'll get our military even more crushed by you!"

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago

These days Russia mainly strikes with misinformation campaigns and hacking attacks. Sometimes they even sabotage underseas infrastructure.

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