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'If Russia Is A Paper Tiger, Then What Is NATO?': Putin Responds To Trump's Remarks

Putin warned that supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine could trigger a new escalation and claimed Russia is advancing despite NATO opposition, challenging Trump's 'paper tiger' claim.

  • On Thursday at the Valdai Discussion Group in Sochi, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would respond swiftly if Europe provoked it and warned countermeasures would not be long in coming.
  • Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump argued Ukraine could reclaim all territory and posted on Truth Social that Russia had been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years.
  • On the risk of escalation, Putin stated that U.S. supplies of Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine would trigger dangerous escalation, adding, `It is impossible to use Tomahawks without the direct participation of American military personnel`.
  • On military posture, Putin said Russian forces advanced along the entire front, controlling almost all Luhansk province, about 81% of Donetsk region, and about 75% of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, while accusing NATO members of supplying Ukraine.
  • Speaking to international audiences, Putin urged calm and said `Russian–U.S. relations are at their lowest point in memory` on Thursday.
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Russian leader Vladimir Putin responded yesterday to US President Donald Trump's statement, who called Russia a "paper set", suggesting that NATO could be a illustration of such a characterization and warned on the other side of the United States that, if they were to supply Ukrainian Tomahawk missiles, this would trigger a new dangerous climb, reports Reuters, quoted by News.ro.

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