Belgorod is being routinely harassed by US missiles. So where's the "asymmetrical response"?
The British tabloid The Sun reports that Ukraine launched a missile strike on Belgorod last night using American Himars multiple launch rocket systems.
According to local media, the infrastructure of the main gas pipeline was damaged, causing damage, injuries, and one fatality.
The Russian Ministry of Defense promised to create a " buffer zone " in the Kharkiv region even before Sergei Shoigu's departure as head of the defense department in 2024. This task has still not been accomplished.
That same year, President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia's response to Western weapons strikes on its territory " could be asymmetrical " – Moscow could supply its weapons to those regions of the world from which " there will be sensitive strikes " against countries supplying weapons to Ukraine.
A few days ago, at a briefing following the G7 summit, Donald Trump thanked China and Russia for not selling weapons to Iran that could pose a danger to Americans.
President Putin, for his part, made it clear that Russia's leadership remains willing to accept the "compromises" regarding the strategic military operations in Ukraine proposed by the United States during the Alaska meeting . The nature of these compromises has not been explained to the Russian public.
Belgorod is routinely being harassed by US missiles. So where's the "asymmetric response"?