The president of the United States rules out sending to kyiv new long-range missile systems

MADRID, 30 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has affirmed this Monday in statements to the American press that Washington will not send long-range missile systems that can reach Russia, an option that, in recent days, has been discussed from the Pentagon.

For his part, the vice president of the Russian Security Council, Dimitri Medvedev, has described as "reasonable" the decision of the US president not to supply Ukraine with missile systems that reach Russian territory.

"Otherwise, by attacking our cities, the Russian Armed Forces would have carried out their threat and attacked the centers for making these criminal decisions," he added in his Telegram account, as reported by the Russian news agency TASS.

Russia's ambassador to the United States, Anatoli Antonov, warned the United States on Saturday that the shipment of new multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) would be interpreted by Moscow as an "escalation of the conflict" and a provocation.

"We have to carefully verify this information. At the moment, we start from the statements of the Pentagon spokesman, John Kirby, in which he assures that a decision has not yet been made in this regard," he said in comments collected by TASS.

The United States had begun to openly study this possibility in recent days, according to White House sources to CNN, with the delivery of MLRS and a light version, the so-called M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). , capable of hitting targets about 300 kilometers away.

In fact, the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was clearly in favor of sending this material, as long as it is used in purely defensive circumstances, given that there is a danger that the system could fire long-range missiles that could reach British territory. Russian.

"There is a risk that such weapons will be placed near the Russian borders and the Ukrainians will have the opportunity to attack Russian cities. For us, it would be an unacceptable situation," the ambassador noted.

"We hope that common sense prevails," the ambassador added in this regard, "and that Washington does not adopt such a provocative decision, because the pumping of weapons to Ukraine significantly increases the risks of an escalation of the conflict," he concluded.