Peskov responds to Biden condemning retaliatory Russian strikes on Ukraine

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded on Nov. 29 to U.S. President Joe Biden, who condemned retaliatory Russian strikes in Ukraine.

"In his recent statement, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin warned that the decision to authorize such use of these U.S. and other foreign-made missiles is an irresponsible and tension-escalating step," he said.

Peskov also reminded that if Ukraine uses foreign-made missiles, Russia will respond accordingly.

Biden on the same day commented on Russia's retaliatory strikes on facilities in Ukraine, calling them outrageous. He noted that Washington would continue to provide military aid to Ukraine, adding that new arms deliveries were expected soon.

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Earlier, on November 28, the Russian president said at a session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Astana that Russia had launched 100 missiles and 466 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at facilities in Ukraine over the past two days. Putin emphasized that all these strikes were responses to the US ballistic missile attacks by Kiev.

Prior to that, on November 21, the Russian president said that Ukraine had used Western long-range weapons against the Russian state, causing the regional conflict to acquire elements of a global conflict. He also said that one of Russia's newest medium-range missile systems, the Oreshnik ballistic missile, had been tested under combat conditions.

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