Putin Warns Of Swift Response If Provoked By Europe

2025-10-02 11:01:13

(MENAFN- Gulf Times) President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that Russia will respond swiftly if it thinks Europe is provoking it and said that almost all of the US-led Nato alliance was now fighting against Russia over Ukraine.
The war in Ukraine, Europe's deadliest since World War Two, has sparked the biggest confrontation between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Putin, speaking at the Valdai Discussion Group in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, said Russian forces were advancing along the entire front in Ukraine.
“All the Nato countries are fighting with us,” Putin said.
Nato members, he said, were providing Ukraine with intelligence, weapons and training. Should Europe provoke Russia, he said, the response would be swift.
“If anyone still has a desire to compete with us in the military sphere, as we say, feel free, let them try,” Putin said.“Russia's counter-measures will not be long in coming.”
Putin dismissed US President Donald Trump's claims that Russia was“a paper tiger”, saying Russia had the most capable army in the world.

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