The Kremlin today threatened Britain with 'tough retaliatory measures' as President Vladimir Putin said devastating Western sanctions against Russia are verging on a declaration of war, and warned that any country imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine would be considered to have entered the ongoing conflict.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCKgXn3xv_k
The threats came as Moscow's brutal assault on Ukraine saw a mass civilian evacuation from Mariupol derailed when Russian forces ignored a promised ceasefire and continued shelling the southern city.

Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) said Saturday evening that Russia's proposed ceasefire was likely an attempt to regroup its forces for a new onslaught, while also an attempt to deflect international condemnation.

'By accusing Ukraine of breaking the agreement, Russia is likely seeking to shift responsibility for current and future civilian casualties in the city,' the British defence ministry said in an intelligence update.

Russia's defence ministry accused Ukrainian 'nationalists' of preventing civilians from leaving, RIA news agency reported. But Mariupol's city council said Russia was not observing the ceasefire.

A defiant Putin today called the West's economic, diplomatic and cultural boycott of the country tantamount to a declaration of war and warned that his regime would consider any third-party declaration of a no-fly zone as 'participation in the armed conflict'.

In an astonishing display of sabre-rattling, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned London: 'Russia will not forget Britain's desire to co-operate with ultra-nationalist forces in Ukraine and the supply of British weapons to the Kiev regime'.

She added: 'The sanctions hysteria in which London plays one of the leading, if not the main, roles, leaves us no choice but to take proportionately tough retaliatory measures. London has made a final choice of open confrontation with Russia.

'Such a development convinces us once more that Russophobia and the aim to undermine the Russian state are integral elements of Britain's foreign policy.'

Source: https://abntv.com.ng/2022/03/any-move-towards-a-no-fly-zone-to-be-seen-as-war-declaration-russia-threatens-britain-video/

Cc; lalasticlala, Mynd44, Seun, OAM4J

Putin is a bastard idiot

the dictator is doing as he wish. and he prooved himself unstopeable..and bending the superpowers to his wills

Putin is fighting the battle of his life.

And what the hell does Putin thinks he is doing to Ukraine?

Putin is only doing what he got to do to protect his country.

This man is an hypocrite.

The kind of leader Africa needs..
Let them move in and enforce a No Fly Zone and have London obliterated in an hour...
Imagine Britain, a dead power that barks from the back of America threatening Russia with a No Fly Zone after bombing Libya back to the stone age...
Very funny bunch..