Writing on Telegram, he said: “Life is much worse than their frivolous reasoning.
“A few years ago, they insisted that Russia would not enter into an open military conflict with the [mid-1900s Ukrainian far-right] Bandera regime, so as not to quarrel with the West.”
He added: “Russia regards all long-range weapons used by Ukraine as already being directly controlled by servicemen from NATO countries. This is no military assistance, this is participation in a war against us.
“And such actions could well become a casus belli (an act that provokes a war).
“This is, alas, neither intimidation nor bluffing,”