🇷🇺🇺🇸❗️❗️❗️❗️ is ready to at the United States, - Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.

“If America decides to transfer weapons capable of reaching targets in Russia to Ukraine, the country will be forced to strike in order to prevent the delivery.” 

“Any transfer of weapons to increases the risk of a direct clash between the Russian Federation and the United States”, Ryabkov stressed.

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It’s worth noting that Russia has never used that language in the past**. Russia always spoke of retaliatory strikes if Russian territory is attacked — never initiating strikes. So that’s new