Putin Warns on Ukraine ‘Red Line’ as U.S., U.K. Pledge Response
- Blinken says attack would trigger ‘serious consequences’
- U.K. says it will assist Ukraine as NATO ministers meet
Russian forces during military drills in Crimea in April.
Photographer: Vadim Savitsky/Russian Defense Ministry/AP Photo
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President Vladimir Putin warned the West not to cross the Kremlin’s security “red line” as the U.S. and the U.K. said any Russian incursion into Ukraine would trigger serious diplomatic and economic responses.
Expansion of western military infrastructure into Ukraine would leave Moscow exposed to the risk of attack in as little as five minutes “if supersonic weapons are placed there,” Putin said Tuesday in a videoconference at the VTB Russia Calling! forum in Moscow. “Then we will have to create something similar to those who threaten us and we can already do that now.”