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Russia warns of 'direct confrontation' with NATO
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A statement issued today in Moscow by Putin’s new defence minister Andrey Belousov instructed his armed forces general staff to ‘take measures to respond promptly to provocations’ involving US surveillance drones over the Black Sea.
A separate warning from the Putin regime claimed Western leaders are falling into ‘the abyss of direct armed confrontation with Russia’ - a likely nuclear conflict.
Separately, an RAF RC-135 radio-technical reconnaissance and electronic warfare aircraft was escorted this week by no less than four British Typhoon fighters as it overflew the Black Sea.
Belousov - seen as uber-close to Putin - did not specify what he meant by ‘measures to respond promptly’ to Western spy drone flights which are taking place multiple times each week.
‘The Russian pilot, demonstrating high professionalism, took the necessary measures in time to prevent the collision,’ said the ministry, warning of ‘more dangerous approaches and subsequent turbulence for coalition drones’.
Separately, Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov warned Putin-controlled state TV in Moscow of the dire risk of the current strains in relations between Russia and the West turning into nuclear war.
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