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UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of "bluster" Sunday over his warning that letting Ukraine use
long-range weapons to strike inside Russia would put NATO "at war" with Moscow.US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Keir
Starmer met at the White House to discuss whether to ease rules on Kyiv's use of western-supplied weapons this week"I think that what
Putin's doing is throwing dust up into the air," Lammy told the BBC."There's a lot of bluster
That's his modus operandi
He threatens about tanks, he threatens about missiles, he threatens about nuclear weapons."Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been
asking for permission to use long-range weapons such as British Storm Shadow missiles and US-made ATACMS missiles to hit targets deeper
inside Russia for months.Biden and Starmer delayed a decision on the move during their meeting on Friday.It came after Putin warned that
green-lighting use of the weapons "would mean that NATO countries, the US, European countries, are at war with Russia.""If that's the case,
then taking into account the change of nature of the conflict, we will take the appropriate decisions based on the threats that we will
face," he added.The Russian leader has long warned western countries that they risk provoking a nuclear war over their support for
Ukraine."We cannot be blown off course by an imperialist fascist, effectively, that wants to move into countries willy nilly," said
Lammy."If we let him with Ukraine, believe me, he will not stop there."Lammy said that talks between Starmer, Biden and Zelensky over the
use of the missiles would continue at the United Nations General Assembly gathering in New York later this month.Elsewhere, German
Chancellor Olaf Scholz once again ruled out sending long-range precision weapons to Ukraine on Saturday, regardless of decisions made by
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