We’ve read reactions over the last 24 hours to Vladimir Putin’s comments encouraging a “missile duel” between Russia and the US.
The Russian president suggested the two superpowers could use Kyiv as a target to see which country’s missiles were able to bypass US air defences.
His comments drew international condemnation, with Volodymyr Zelenskyy labelling Putin a “scumbag”.
But Russia’s defence ministry says the West’s reaction to Putin’s words are hypocritical, suggesting the rhetoric around Ukraine “inflicting strategic defeat” on Russia was no different.
“Every day Western leaders talk about strikes “deep into Russia” and no one in these countries faints from such statements,” said spokesperson Maria Zakharova.
She said the Western public was “dumbfounded” by Putin’s statement, which she says was a “hypothetical” suggestion using Kyiv as an example.
“I am not even talking about the silent encouragement by Westerners of the bloody terrorist attacks that the Kyiv regime is committing all over the world,” she added.
“Let them think about what it is like to live in the circumstances that are offered to others.”
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