MOSCOW, May 7 – Moscow can hit back at “any British military installations and equipment in or outside Ukraine” if Ukraine strikes on Russian territory with U.K.-made weapons, the Russian Foreign Ministry claimed on Monday.
British Ambassador to Moscow Nigel Casey was summoned to Russia’s Foreign Ministry for a formal protest after U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron said that Kyiv had a right to use the weapons provided by London to strike targets inside Russia.
“Ukraine has that right. Just as Russia is striking inside Ukraine, you can quite understand why Ukraine feels the need to make sure it’s defending itself,” he said.
The Russian ministry claimed that Cameron “had de facto recognized his country as a part of the conflict,” calling his remarks a “serious escalation.”
“Casey was warned that in response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory with British weapons, any British military facilities and equipment on the territory of Ukraine and abroad could be targeted,” the ministry’s statement read.
