Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that if the United States decided to supply Kyiv with long-range missiles, it would cross a "red line" and become a "party to the conflict."
In a briefing, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova added that Russia "reserves the right to defend its territory".
Washington has supplied Ukraine with advanced rockets that can hit targets up to 80 km (50 miles) away, while so far holding back from publicly announcing it would send rockets with more than double that range. U.S. officials say Ukraine has promised not to use U.S. rockets to strike Russian territory.
Washington would be crossing a red line and directly joining the conflict if it decided to give Kyiv longer-range missiles, according to Zakharova.
Ukraine has asked for and received a sizable amount of weapons from the US and other Western partners to aid it in fending off the Russian armed forces that entered the country in February.
Moscow claims it dispatched soldiers to defend Russian-speaking citizens and stop the use of Ukraine as a springboard for Western invasion. These ideas are rejected by Kiev and its Western backers as flimsy justifications for an aggressive war in the imperial tradition.
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