Russia warns the United States of the risks of World War Three

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Russia warns the ******* States of the risks of World War Three

By Guy Faulconbridge and Vladimir Soldatkin

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said the West was playing with ***** by considering allowing Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with Western missiles and cautioned the ******* States on Tuesday that World War Three would not be confined to Europe.

Ukraine attacked Russia’s western Kursk region on Aug. 6 and has carved out a slice of territory in the biggest foreign ******* on Russia since World War Two. President Vladimir ****** said there would be a worthy response from Russia to the *******.

Sergei Lavrov, who has served as ******’s foreign minister for more than 20 years, said that the West was seeking to escalate the Ukraine war and was “asking for trouble” by considering Ukrainian requests to loosen curbs on using foreign-supplied weapons.

Since invading Ukraine in 2022, ****** has repeatedly warned of the risk of a much broader war involving the world’s biggest nuclear powers, though he has said Russia does not want a conflict with the U.S.-led NATO alliance.

“We are now confirming once again that playing with ***** – and they are like small children playing with matches – is a very dangerous thing for grown-up uncles and aunts who are entrusted with nuclear weapons in one or another Western country,” Lavrov told reporters in Moscow.

“Americans unequivocally associate conversations about Third World War as something that, **** forbid, if it happens, will affect Europe exclusively,” Lavrov said.

Lavrov added that Russia was “clarifying” its nuclear doctrine.

Russia’s 2020 nuclear doctrine sets out when its president would consider using a nuclear *******: broadly as a response to an ******* using nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction or conventional weapons “when the very existence of the state is put under threat”.

RUSSIA’S RESPONSE

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said earlier this month that the ******** on Russia’s Kursk region showed that Kremlin threats of retaliation were a bluff.

Zelenskiy said Ukraine, because of the restrictions imposed by allies, could not use the weapons at its disposal to hit some Russian military targets. He urged allies to be bolder in their decisions about how to help Kyiv in the war.

Russia has said that Western weaponry, including British tanks and U.S. rocket systems, have been used by Ukraine in Kursk. Kyiv has confirmed using U.S. HIMARS missiles to take out bridges in Kursk.

Washington says it was not informed about Ukraine’s plans ahead of the surprise incursion into Kursk. The ******* States has also said it did not take any part in the operation.

******’s foreign intelligence chief, Sergei Naryshkin, said on Tuesday that Moscow did not believe Western assertions that it had nothing to do with the Kursk *******. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the involvement of the ******* States was “an obvious fact”.

The New York Times reported that the ******* States and Britain provided Ukraine with satellite imagery and other information about the Kursk region in the days after the Ukrainian *******.

The Times said that the intelligence was aimed at helping Ukraine keep better track of Russian reinforcements.

(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Writing by Lucy Papachristou; Editing by Mark Trevelyan and Alex Richardson)

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