The threatened tit-for-tat response comes as Russia is expected to deploy warships and aircraft in the Caribbean.

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated on Wednesday that Russia could arm the West’s enemies with long-range missiles if Ukraine uses NATO-supplied weapons to strike Russian territory.

Several countries that have provided long-range weapons to Ukraine, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, have given Kyiv permission to use them to attack targets across Russia’s border in recent weeks.

This marks a change of heart for Ukraine’s allies, who had previously provided military aid on the condition that the weapons weren’t used to hit Russia directly.

This follows Moscow’s recent territorial losses in Ukraine’s northeastern region of Kharkiv.

Putin, at a rare press conference with foreign journalists in Moscow on Wednesday, said, 'If someone thinks it is possible to supply such weapons to a war zone to attack our territory and create problems for us, why don't we have the right to supply weapons of the same class to regions of the world where there will be strikes on sensitive facilities of those countries?'U.

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Senator Mike Rounds, a member of the Armed Services Committee, mentioned this week that Kyiv has used U.

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-supplied weapons to strike targets in Russia but declined to provide further details.

The threatened tit-for-tat from Putin comes as Moscow is expected to deploy warships and aircraft in the Caribbean in the coming weeks, according to the Associated Press.

“These dramatic violations of international humanitarian law need to stop now,” U.

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chief António Guterres said.

In a lighter note, Berlin’s foreign ministry taunted a Republican presidential candidate by saying, “P.

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We also don’t eat cats and dogs.

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