“If the Americans decide to supply long-range missiles, then I want to say, and I don’t even doubt it, that the Russian side will take adequate steps to protect our territory from a possible attack,” Antonov said on Channel One.
He also noted that the supply of Western long-range systems to Kyiv will not change the state of affairs in Ukraine.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin for the Moscow.
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Putin” said that Russia would draw the appropriate conclusions if long-range missiles were supplied to Ukraine.
In addition, Putin commented on the decision of the US authorities to send new weapons to Ukraine.