Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Pool via REUTERSPresident Vladimir Putin's spy chief warned the West on Wednesday that it risked disastrous consequences if the United States and its European allies stoke a direct military confrontation with Russia over Ukraine. Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), said Russia would punish any NATO states that help Ukraine strike deep into Russia with long-range Western weapons. Russia said Ukraine fired US ATACMS missiles into Russia early on Tuesday morning and suggested that the United States must have helped the strikes with satellite data, targeting and military personnel. Peskov said that while neither Russia nor the United States had signed the convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines, Ukraine had. "It is important for us to achieve our goals which are well known to everyone," Peskov told reporters.
