Russia-Ukraine war: Weapons supplied to Kyiv becomes a sore point for Moscow | WION Fineprint

Russia-Ukraine war: Weapons supplied to Kyiv becomes a sore point for Moscow | WION Fineprint

as Russia and Ukraine continue to trade both threats and attacks the US is in the picture yet again of its supply of weapons to keev after Moscow blamed Washington for Ukraine’s recent attack on Crimea and vowed Revenge the defense Chiefs of the two Nations engaged in a rare conversation the two sides gave widely Divergent accounts of the phone call between us defense secretary Lloyd Austin and Russia’s defense minister Andre bov the Pentagon says Austin initiated the conversation and that he believes that keeping lines of communication open is important Russia’s defense Ministry however says that bosov has warned Austin of the dangers of continued arm Supply to Ukraine and this is not the first warning of its kind the Kremlin warned the US of consequences after Ukraine struck cria Copo during the weekend using a us- made atams missile these threats Sako back to Western weapon shipments to Ukraine that have become an increasingly sour point for Moscow but as bov engaged in talks the previous postolder Former Defense Minister Sarge Shu was issued a warrant of arrest by the ICC and Shu was not alone Russia’s most senior military officer General Valerie gasimov was also hit with an arrest warrant of strikes against civilian targets the has said that it considers the warrants to be absur adding that Russia does not recognize the Court’s Jurisdiction but even as the international criminal court delivered a stinging condemnation of Russia’s Invasion Russia launched 42 Glide bombs on the northeastern har region over a 24-hour period and this according to local authorities on the other hand multiple air attacks by Ukraine were reported on the southern Russian region of belgorod the governor said an elderly woman was killed four people were injured and scores of buildings were damaged Russia’s defense Ministry said its air defense systems destroyed 29 Ukraine launched drones over the region meanwhile Russia and Ukraine each handed backed 90 prisoners of War on Tuesday with the Arab or the United Arab Emirates overseeing The Exchange as an intermediary Russia said prisoners brought home had faced mortal danger in captivity this is the latest of several periodic swamps in the 28th month old conflict let’s now talk more about this retired colel rich outen is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the jamest toown foundation he is now joining us from gaziantep tur Cano Rich good to see you and thank you very much for joining us at this hour what do you think will be Ukraine’s or kev’s response to the two defense Ministers of America and Russia holding a conversation and saying that uh they’ll keep their line of communication open well uh it’s good to be with you Eric I I think uh ke’s in an interesting situation here because it has conditional support from the United States rather than an unconditional support so it’s fighting a war a defensive war against the aggressor Russia uh with one eye behind uh its front always thinking how much will the US allow us to do and being put in the position of Happ to press the United States for more authorities now the systems that we’ve given uh including the now the f-16s that are coming online aam’s missiles as you mentioned before uh artillery systems that can shoot further and see further uh have been kept under a certain leash the United States has tried to play a control game in terms of escalation to try to not attack on the Russian territory even though the Russians are of course attacking throughout the depth of Ukrainian territory in order to how how this goes so the the concept here is uh horizontal escalation rather than vertical escalation the United States wants to keep it from going too high in terms of the types of weapons and maybe becoming a direct us Russia conflict and instead letting at the margins this becomes certain types of systems allowed to attack say in Crimea or in Bel garad as you mentioned so there is some horizontal escalation being played for Ukraine I think they just have to keep pushing the envelope they they have to keep convincing Washington that look if you really don’t want us to lose this war don’t have one of our our hands tied behinds our back we need to be able to hit the aggressor as deep in his country as he is hitting Us in ours Cano Rich despite Russia saying that uh now that we’re talking we cannot forget what happened in Copo in Crimea where the atams missiles were used by Ukrainian forces to hit civilians and 150 civilians were injured in that attack uh four people were killed in that attack Russia says that Washington will face consequences what do you think these consequences are well I think Russia’s implying by this that they will uh try to have systems put close to either the United States uh or to uh allies of the United States that can put into Peril uh civilian targets as well to as if there is a parallel there of course the difference being that the United States has not launched an offensive war against a major sovereign country like Ukraine which is what Russia has done so the uh implication from Russia that we will put you in the same sort of peril that that you’re putting us in ignores the moral dimension of the fact that they are aggressor that put aside though we’ve seen this before during the Cold War Russia put missiles in Cuba uh to try to threaten the United States at the same time that we the United States had missiles s in Turkey where I happen to be at the moment that were in a position to to conduct attacks against the Soviet Union in that case neither side escalated into a direct Soviet versus American uh escalation after John F Kennedy took certain strong deterrent steps then both sides stepped back from that so I think Russia’s probably probably trying to do the inverse of that they are probably trying to get the United States to back down from allowing Ukraine a greater leash in the use of its defensive weapons by implying the ability to threaten either the US Homeland or us allies the difference here of course is that Russia I don’t think really has the ability to do that and and neither in their strategic Arsenal nor in their uh set of allies along our borders and frankly I don’t think they want to go into that escalation game with us if they got a president willing to play escalation right other than the current soft Administration they might find themselves uh incurring significantly higher costs very quickly Cano rich as we end this conversation uh what do you think will be the impact of these threats by Russia that if you continue to the West that is that if you continue to supply Ukraine with your weapons we will Revenge we will count for you well unfortunately I think it’ll have some effect uh the Biden Administration has shown a willingness to do what we call self-d deterrence by consistently thinking well if we make the Russians mad or if we escalate to a point that the Russians find unacceptable we can’t incur those costs of course that’s not how escalation Works escalation works when or deterrence Works in in escalation when you convince the other side that they don’t know the cost they’ll incur and when you imply we certainly don’t want to incur costs up to this level which is what the Biden Administration has again and again communicated to Russia then Russia knows exactly how far it can go introducing to Russia the idea that they don’t know how much pain we can inflict on them and that we’re willing to go higher is the way to stop their acts of aggression and their escalating aggression unfortunately against this current uh counterpart that they have in the Biden Administration I think that they’re uh talking about escalation in this way probably will get the Biden Administration to put further restrictions on what Ukraine does all right we’ll have to leave it there I’ve been talking to Koo richen senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Jamestown Foundation Cano rich as always thank you thank you for all the 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Russia has again raised dangers of further escalation of the situation in Ukraine due to the continued supply of weapons to Kyiv. the Russian defense minister Andre Bosov spoke to his American counterpart Lloyd Austin over the phone on Tuesday. The latest interaction comes on the back of the Kremlin warning the United States of consequences.

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