Shoigu: Russia will have to push back threats depending on arms supplies to Kyiv

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu answered the “most logical question” about how far the country would have to push the Western threat away from its borders. This was announced in his Telegram channel by journalist Pavel Zarubin, who published fragment of an interview with Shoigu for the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” on the channel “Russia 1”.

On February 21, during a message to the Federal Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that “the more long-range Western systems will come to Ukraine, the further we will be forced to move the threat away from our borders.” He called this process “natural”.

When asked by Zarubin about how far this threat would have to be pushed back, Shoigu replied that “it depends on the weapons that will be issued.”

During the message, Putin also said that the country is aware that the West is involved in Ukraine’s attempts to strike Russian strategic aviation bases. According to him, the drones used for this were “equipped and modernized with the assistance of NATO specialists.” He called the goal of Western countries the transfer of a local conflict in Ukraine into a phase of global confrontation and the strategic defeat of Russia.

Vladimir Rogov, member of the main council of the administration of the Zaporozhye region and chairman of the movement “We are with Russia” saidthat against the backdrop of the supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine, the issue of advancing the front line 150 km deep into the “post-Ukrainian space” becomes relevant.