After the Kremlin shut off gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland, the European Union told Russia on Wednesday that it would not bow to “blackmail” over its backing for Kyiv.
Following discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Kyiv to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
On Wednesday, Putin offered his own threat, stating that if Western forces engage in Ukraine, they will be met with a “lightning-quick” military retaliation.
“We have all the means for this that no one else has,” Putin told legislators, implying that he was alluding to Russia’s ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons.