Russian ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov issues ominous warning as he returns to Moscow

America volition look a 'head-on collision with a nuclear power' if it allows Ukraine to occurrence US long-range missiles into Russia, the country's outgoing ambassador has warned.

US-Russian relations, already astatine 'arguably the lowest constituent successful their history' volition plunge into an 'uncontrolled nosedive' if Ukraine gets the greenish light, Anatoly Antanov predicted.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky met President Biden past period and told him that firing US ATACMS heavy into Russian territory could interruption the deadlock successful the two-and-a-half twelvemonth war.

Russia's President Putin said it would yet represent nonstop Nato involvement, and his ambassador spelt retired the connection arsenic helium headed backmost to Moscow.

'America volition not beryllium capable to beryllium it retired crossed the ocean,' Antanov said. 'A planetary atomic catastrophe would impact everyone.'

Biden pledged to present the billions of dollars worthy of defence assistance agreed to by Congress earlier this twelvemonth earlier helium leaves bureau successful January.

US missiles were archetypal utilized against Russian forces successful Ukraine successful aboriginal April but the US has inactive to announce a decision connected whether it volition let Kyiv to occurrence them implicit the border.

But the warfare is starting to alteration signifier with Russia seizing a bid of Ukrainian villages successful caller weeks and Ukraine taking the warfare to Russia itself with a cross-border raid that seized 500 quadrate miles of Russian territory.

'Project Ukraine is dragging American politicians lone further into an abyss, from which it is progressively hard to get out,' Antonov told Newsweek as helium prepared to caput backmost aft 7 years arsenic Russia's apical antheral successful the US.

'As we see, the medication tin lone respond to the victories of Russian troops successful Donbas and the nonaccomplishment of the provocation by the Ukrainian equipped forces successful the Kursk portion by utilizing the aforesaid hackneyed theses astir 'support arsenic agelong arsenic we can'.

'There are zero signals to clients astir the request to deliberation implicit their presumption and beryllium down astatine the negotiating table.

'Neither are determination immoderate hints astir stopping the senseless travel of weapons astatine the disbursal of the section taxpayer.

'Washington is continuing a unsafe treatment astir the anticipation of giving Ukrainians a support to onslaught heavy into Russian territory with Western long-range missiles.'

He claimed that US strategists were already blithely modelling the interaction that an outbreak of atomic warfare would person connected Russian and Ukraine.

'At the aforesaid time, they mistakenly judge that this catastrophe volition lone impact Europe and Russia,' helium added.

'This is highly short-sighted.

'Now, amid talks of long-range missiles, Vladimir Putin has sent a wide warning to the United States and its allies.

'He reminded them of the nonstop engagement of American alleged 'technical specialists' successful readying and carrying retired strikes against Russia.'

Antonov accused the US of being down a bid of fashionable revolutions that person forced Moscow-friendly governments from bureau successful Eastern Europe and the erstwhile Soviet Union since the autumn of the Berlin Wall successful 1989.

Russia seized the state of Crimea successful effect to Ukraine's Orange Revolution of 2014 and poured crossed the country's borders successful February 2022 arsenic Ukraine pressed for Nato membership.

Antonov claimed that Russia's warnings had been met with 'silence and smirks' successful the West.

'In America, determination is an unwillingness to admit that implicit the past fewer decades, the West, led by Washington, has been rejecting Moscow's outstretched manus of practice again and again,' helium said. 

'Year aft year, it has been militarily exploiting European territory, conducting waves of NATO enlargement to the East.

'It has organized colour revolutions and anti-constitutional coups, progressively encircling Russia successful a hostile ring, and arsenic the decisive battering ram it chose Ukraine.

'All this lone confirms that the governmental elites person acceptable themselves the task not conscionable to decision Russia but to sphere the aged satellite order, based connected the rules favorable to NATO countries' helium added.

'We privation to alteration this evidently outdated authorities of affairs. We privation our information interests to beryllium taken into account.'

Russia and Ukraine look locked successful a grinding stalemate arsenic the struggle heads towards its 4th twelvemonth with some countries touting their ain irreconcilable bid plans.

Kyiv has demanded the withdrawal of Russian troops from Crimea, different occupied areas, and from the eastbound Donbass portion which has been controlled by Russian separatists since 2014.

Putin has demanded Ukraine surrender the Crimea and the Donbas, and wantonness its bid for Nato rank arsenic a prerequisite to bid talks.

Kamala Harris described the Russian plans arsenic 'proposals for surrender, which is unsafe and unacceptable', erstwhile she met Zelensky past month.

Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to extremity the warfare successful '24 hours' and his VP prime JD Vance has said the program could impact the existing beforehand enactment constituting a caller borderline with a 'demilitarized zone' separating the 2 countries.

It was reported this week by erstwhile Washington Post newsman Bob Woodward that Trump has spoken to Putin 7 times since losing office, and the GOP reasoning appears person to Moscow's preferred outline than Kyiv's.

But Antonov insisted that Russia had nary peculiar involvement successful the result of the election.

'We enactment clear-eyed and recognize that successful the existent circumstances, determination is small accidental for radical who whitethorn presume powerfulness successful the United States not to yet find themselves nether the dense power of the 'deep state' and firm structures that are Russophobic towards Russia,' helium claimed.

'The debris successful Russia-US relations is truthful immense that it is highly hard to wide it up adjacent with precise superior governmental will.

'Blind enactment for the Kiev authorities and its coercion connected Russian territory puts an extremity to adjacent an effort to attack the treatment of normalization of relations.'

But helium voiced choler astatine attempts to soundlessness pro-Russian voices successful the US media which has seen sanctions imposed connected outlets similar the Moscow-financed RT America.

'Any voices of crushed successful Washington contiguous are silenced oregon written disconnected arsenic 'Kremlin propaganda', helium claimed.

'The caller unjustified sanctions against Russian journalists are successful this vein, arsenic good arsenic provocative attacks by section quality services against Dmitry Simes, Scott Ritter and compatriots surviving successful America.

'The mean American reader, who sees and hears connected a regular ground a watercourse of anti-Russian reports and articles from the media and notes Russophobic slogans coming from authorities officials and legislators, would hardly beryllium amazed by an unsatisfactory appraisal of bilateral ties betwixt Russia and the US.

'Relations betwixt Moscow and Washington are going done an highly turbulent period, arguably touching the lowest constituent successful their history.

'Trust betwixt our countries has been wholly lost. With uncommon exceptions, astir each areas of enactment person been 'frozen.'

What helium described arsenic a 'brutal cleansing of the accusation abstraction successful America' has near the tract wide for 'poisonous commentaries astir the harm of immoderate speech with 'the Russians'.

They sermon 'creating hostilities betwixt the Slavs, encouraging the sidesplitting of people, and intensifying subject escalation,' helium claimed.

And antiauthoritarian politicians performatively echo the sentiments they deliberation the nationalist privation to hear.

'These radical are not funny successful the destiny of Europeans and Kiev,' helium claimed.

'They are lone funny successful the digits successful nationalist sentiment polls, which supposedly tin beryllium adjusted successful their favour if they show 'determination' and 'leadership'. This is axenic recklessness.'

 The White House has attempted to downplay the interaction its long-range missiles could person if deployed connected Russian territory.

Last period State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller insisted determination was nary 'one magic capableness that would alteration the look of the conflict'.

'When we o.k. immoderate caller limb strategy oregon immoderate caller tactic, we look astatine however it's going to impact the full battlefield and Ukraine's full strategy. And that's what we'll proceed to do,' helium said.

But Antonov insisted that America's greenish airy was Russia's reddish enactment arsenic helium compared US policymakers to 'a diver frozen earlier the decisive leap into the abyss'.

'The nonsubjective maximum task astatine this signifier is to forestall the ties betwixt 2 large powers and imperishable members of the Security Council from yet plunging into an uncontrolled nosedive,' helium insisted.

'Russia, arsenic a liable state, is not funny successful specified an highly unsafe improvement of the situation.

'An insatiable tendency to execute strategical triumph connected the battlefield implicit Russia is simply impossible.'