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‘You’re playing with fire,’ RT editor-in-chief warns Europe — RT, July 8, 2023 (FULL INTERVIEW) Russian society is nearing the limit of its patience as Kiev’s Western backers assist Ukrainian strikes deep into the country, Margarita Simonyan has said Europe is “playing with fire” as it assists Ukraine in strikes deep into Russia, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan has said, warning Kiev’s Western backers that Moscow may have no other choice other than to respond with force. In a lengthy interview with Die Weltwoche's Roger Koeppel on Wednesday, Simonyan said, “it is not Ukraine that is bringing the war to Moscow” but rather Europe, as Kiev is incapable of conducting attacks without foreign aid and intelligence. Simonyan warned that Moscow’s patience is running thin as drones, missiles, flight disruptions, and fuel shortages increasingly affect civilians in Russia.

“People are afraid to sleep at night… Where is the limit of this hardship, when the people will say, ‘Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin], we have to respond! I don’t know, but I think it is very close. Very close. Right now, you are playing with fire.”

At one point during the interview Margarita Simonyan bursts out:

"Sometimes it seems to me that you people in Europe have really all gone a little crazy. Please tell me, during these five years, has a single Russian missile hit Europe? Has a single Russian tank been sent anywhere into Europe? Has a single Russian combat aircraft flown anywhere into Europe? (No, no, no.) And how many European missiles, tanks, and aircraft have been sent into, and hit, Russia in all this time? Thousands. And after that, you're asking me about Russia's responsibility? Russia has not laid a finger on Europe. It is Europe that is sending its tanks, aircraft, missiles and drones into Russia, causing a transportation crisis, a gasoline crisis in Russia, and so on..."

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