"Every arms delivery to Ukraine means a new round of escalation," Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with the Izvestia daily, Paralel.Az reports.

"Russia is ready for this, Russia has the means to counteract. Each new delivery is a new round of escalation, tension, and the responsibility for this new round lies with those countries that initiated it," Peskov said.

He reiterated Russian President Vladimir Putin’s remarks that Russia was aware of West’s plans to deliver weapons to the Kyiv government.