News - Middle East: A senior Russian official has warned that deliveries of offensive weapons to Ukraine by the United States and NATO for attacks on Russia would lead to a global catastrophe.

Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of the lower house of the Russian Parliament, made the remarks in a post on his Telegram channel on Sunday, after Ukraine’s allies promised Kiev a new military aid package worth billions of dollars last week.

"Supplies of offensive weapons to the Kiev regime would lead to a global disaster. If Washington and NATO countries supply weapons that will be used to strike civilian cities and attempt to seize our territories, as they threaten, this will lead to retaliatory measures using more powerful weapons," Volodin said.

“Arguments that nuclear powers have not previously used weapons of mass destruction in local conflicts are untenable,” stressing that “Those states did not face a situation where the security of their citizens or their territorial integrity was at stake.”

The senior Russian lawmaker called on members of the US Congress, Germany’s Bundestag, France’s National Assembly and other European parliamentarians to realize their responsibility for humankind, warning that they are pushing the world to a “disastrous war” by their decisions.