Putin threatens to arm West's enemies with long-range missiles

"If someone thinks it is possible to supply such weapons to a war zone to attack our territory and create problems for us, why don't we have the right to supply weapons of the same class to regions of the world where there will be strikes on sensitive facilities of those countries?" Putin said at a rare press conference with foreign journalists in Moscow on Wednesday.

"That is, the response can be asymmetric. We will think about it,” the Russian leader added.

U.S. Senator Mike Rounds, a member of the Armed Services Committee, confirmed this week that Kyiv has used U.S.-supplied weapons to strike targets in Russia but declined to say more.

The threatened tit-for-tat from Putin comes as Moscow is expected to deploy warships and aircraft for military exercises in the Caribbean in the coming weeks, according to the Associated Press.