by Mark Mole at New York Post
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned NATO and the US Tuesday that any deployment of troops or missiles in Ukraine would cross a “red line” and prompt a military response.
“The emergence of such threats represents a ‘red line’ for us,” the Russian leader said. “I hope that it will not get to that and common sense and responsibility for their own countries and the global community will eventually prevail.”
Putin also threatened to retaliate using the Kremlin’s latest weapon, a Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile Russia successfully test-fired earlier this month that can travel nine times the speed of sound.
“If some kind of strike systems appear on the territory of Ukraine, the flight time to Moscow will be 7-10 minutes, and five minutes in the case of a hypersonic weapon being deployed,” Putin said.
“What are we to do in such a scenario?” he continued. “We will have to then create something similar in relation to those who threaten us in that way. And we can do that now.”…
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