Moscow: If Ukraine is given long-range weapons like Tomahawk cruise missiles to strike deep inside Russia, Moscow’s response will be “overwhelming, stunning”, President Vladimir Putin said in his televised remarks on the sidelines of the XVII Congress of the Russian Geographical Society here on Thursday.

Putin was responding to reporters on the cancellation of the Budapest summit and fresh sanctions on Russia’s two biggest oil corporations, and the possibility of Zelensky getting long-range weapons to strike deep inside Russian territory.

He described the latest sanctions as yet another attempt to pressure Russia.

“Not a single self-respecting nation can bow to outside pressure, especially a nation like Russia,” Putin said, reminding that most of the American sanctions on Russia were im

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