🤡⚠️ "If Ukraine attacks Russia with 🇬🇧British weapons, we will strike London’s targets both in Ukraine and abroad", - Russian Foreign Ministry

The announcement came days after Macron said he would “not rule out” the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine and British Foreign Secretary Cameron said it was up to Kyiv how it used British weapons, including against targets inside of Russia.

The Russian foreign ministry issued a formal protest to UK ambassador Casey over Cameron’s recent statements.

It claims that the remarks made the UK a de facto party to the conflict.

The statement came after a Ukrainian strike on Iskander short-range ballistic missile systems stationed in the annexed Crimean peninsula.

“Casey was warned that in response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory with British weapons, any British military facilities and equipment on the territory of Ukraine and abroad” could be targeted, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.

“The ambassador was called upon to reflect on the inevitable catastrophic consequences of such hostile steps by London and immediately refute the belligerent provocative statements of the head of the Foreign Office in the most decisive and unambiguous way.”

- Note: Under international law, Ukraine has a right to strike military targets in Russia in self defence. Further, supplying weapons does not make the supplier party to a conflict.