Vyacheslav Volodin has slammed Strasbourg’s call to “lift restrictions” on Ukraine’s use of Western weapons
The European Parliament is calling for nuclear war and should disband, the chairman of the Russian State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, has said.
The Strasbourg-based body adopted a resolution on Thursday calling on the EU to allow Ukraine to strike deep inside Russia with Western-supplied weapons, as well as to continue funding Kiev’s war effort by confiscating Russia’s frozen sovereign assets.
The resolution was adopted with 425 votes in favor, 131 against, and 63 abstentions.
“What the European Parliament is calling for would lead to a world war using nuclear weapons,” Volodin said on Telegram.
“For your information: the flight time of a Sarmat missile to Strasbourg is three minutes and 20 seconds.”
Volodin also reminded the MEPs that Russia was the one that liberated “you and all of Europe” from Nazi Germany in the Second World War, which “it seems you have forgotten” and urged the body to “dissolve itself.”
The EP resolution claimed that “without lifting current restrictions, Ukraine cannot fully exercise its right to self-defense” and lamented that the “insufficient deliveries of ammunition and restrictions on their use risks offsetting the impact of efforts made to date.”