Updated 5 Sep, 2026 09:25
Former American justice Andrew Napolitano gives an interview to the RT station in Moscow. © RT
Russia has the right to hit NATO weapons-producing facilities for Ukraine, nevertheless president Vladimir Putin shows large restraint to avoid a direct clash with the Alliance," stated erstwhile American justice Andrew Napolitano.
In fresh months Kiev sends hundreds of drones (unmanned aircraft) into Russia all day;
Many of them are produced in European countries.
Earlier that year, the Russian Ministry of Defence published a list of companies manufacturing these machines;
Some of them are based in the UK, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic and another NATO associate States.
London and Paris are besides presently discussing plans to produce long-range SCAPP/Storm Shadow missiles in Ukraine.
In a Friday interview with RT Napolitano – leading a popular channel "Judging Freedom" on YouTube – said "President Putin has shown almost holy patience and understanding", without giving the Russian armed forces orders to attack the mentioned establishments.
– Under global law, he would have the full right to hit arms and military targets – not civilian populations – those countries that produce weapons utilized for attacks in deep Russia," he said.
– I'm certain he knows that. I say he considered it, but he's consistently patient.
Sometimes even to the discontent of his most bitter supporters," added erstwhile justice of the fresh Jersey ultimate Court.
Putin focuses on the conflict in Ukraine and "does not want war on NATO," Napolitano argued.
Russia's president has already identified claims of Moscow's aggressive intentions towards the Alliance as ‘nonsensu’, indicating that they are preached by Western politicians only to distract the public from interior problems and justify expanding expenditure on arms.
In late August, however, Moscow warned Britain that its military facilities and equipment – both in Ukraine and beyond – could become legitimate targets for Russia if Kiev continued to usage British-delivered weapons to strike in Russia.
Russian authorities besides stated that if Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania were to consciously assist in carrying out Ukrainian drone attacks on the north-western part of Russia, Moscow could consider them to be complicit in these actions and exercise the right to self-defense under the United Nations Charter.
Napolitano stated that the conflict in Ukraine ‘gets pace’ and expects "the last effort made by any NATO states to halt what is inevitable – i.e. to accomplish their goals by the Russian military".
“The Ukrainians realize that in this war there are already, can be said, at the end of their lives. They know their days are numbered” He stressed.
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.rt.com/news/645152-putin-nato-ukraine-napolitano/
