They expect that their embassy in will be back to normal from tomorrow, Thursday 21 November. The embassy remained closed today, Wednesday, November 20, due to a threat to its security, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said.
The embassy was closed on Wednesday morning. While, the employees were instructed to seek safe shelter. The order came a day after Ukrainian forces used US ATACMS missiles to strike a target inside Russian territory. Moscow.
Russia has been warning the West for months that if Washington allows Kiev to use US, British and French missiles against targets deep inside Russian territory, then those NATO countries will be seen as directly involved in the war in Ukraine.
Putin’s new threats
Ukraine’s strikes deep inside Russia, facilitated by NATO, will not go unpunished, Russia’s foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryskin said Wednesday, according to state news agency RIA.
It is recalled that American long-range ATACMS missiles hit Russian territory on Tuesday, after US President Joe Biden gave the green light for their use by Ukrainian forces.
At the same time, after the approval of Russia’s updated nuclear doctrine by , on the basis of which Moscow could consider using , the US and then Greece and Spain, for fear of air attack.
“Russia will not back down”
Russian diplomats say the crisis now between Moscow and Washington is comparable to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when the two Cold War superpowers came closer than ever to a voluntary nuclear war, and note that the West is wrong to believes that Russia will back down on Ukraine.
The Kremlin has announced that Russia views nuclear weapons as a deterrent and that its updated nuclear doctrine is intended to make it clear to potential enemies that it is inevitable that it will retaliate if they attack Russia.
Today, Peskov told Russia’s RIA news agency that the West is seeking to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia by allowing Kiev to strike targets deep inside Russian territory with US-made weapons.
“And of course they are using Ukraine as a tool in their hands to achieve these goals,” Peskov noted.
