It feels as though we are inching ever closer to a potential third world war, with tensions high between the West and Russia.
As Western leaders decide whether Kyiv can use long-range weapons, Vladimir Putin said if this happens, Russia will ‘make appropriate decisions’.
Ukraine has long been asking for permission to use Western drones to help in its fight against Russia, but the US and UK have held back for fear of escalation.
That soon may change though, after David Lammy and Antony Blinken visited Ukraine this week where they were urged again to lift restrictions on the use of weapons against Russia.
But Putin issued an extremely dire warning to the West, saying this would ‘change the very nature of the conflict’.
He told a state TV reporter yesterday: ‘It would mean that Nato countries, the US, European countries, are at war with Russia.
‘If that’s the case, then taking into account the change of nature of the conflict, we will take the appropriate decisions based on the threats that we will face.’