Speaker Warns of Powerful Retaliation for Weapons Supplies to Kiev for Attacks on Russia

Weapons supplies to Ukraine by the United States and NATO for attacks on Russia would lead to retaliatory use of more powerful armaments, Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin warned on Sunday.

"Supplies of offensive weapons to the Kiev regime would lead to a global disaster. If Washington and NATO countries send arms that will be used for attacks on peaceful cities or attempts at occupying our lands, a threat they have been making, this would provoke retaliatory measures with the use of more powerful weapons," Volodin wrote on his Telegram channel, TASS reported.

The senior Russian lawmaker slammed as untenable other countries’ arguments that "nuclear powers never used weapons of mass destruction in local conflicts."

"Those powers never faced a situation where the security of their citizens or their territorial integrity was at stake," he argued.

The State Duma speaker called on members of the US Congress, Germany’s Bundestag, France’s National Assembly and other European parliamentarians to realize their responsibility for humankind. "By their decisions, Washington and Brussels are pushing the world to a disastrous war - to military operations that will be quite different from what they have seen so far, when only military and critical infrastructure being used by (Ukraine) has been attacked. Given the technological superiority of Russian weapons, Western politicians who have been making such decisions should realize that this may lead to a global disaster that would wipe out their countries," Volodin concluded.