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So Putin says if NATO-supplied MLRS systems hit Russian territory, Russia will hit the West.

This begs the question, what defines Russian territory? Does it include Russian occupied territory and Crimea, or pre 2014 map of Russia?

Yeah I've been wondering that as well. I believe from the US and Ukrainian point of view, those territories will be fair game.  Russia will specifically consider Crimea to be sovereign Russian territory. I don't think Russia will be stupid enough to attempt to attack the west, but if Ukraine does start to mount an offensive against Crimea, then maybe Putin will need to attack a NATO country, to claim he didn't lose to Ukraine, but all of the west combined.  That being said, if it gets to that point, I wonder if Putin will still be in power. A lot of guess work in all of this of course, but Crimea is going to be a very tricky situation no matter what.

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So Putin says if NATO-supplied MLRS systems hit Russian territory, Russia will hit the West.

This begs the question, what defines Russian territory? Does it include Russian occupied territory and Crimea, or pre 2014 map of Russia?

Yeah I've been wondering that as well. I believe from the US and Ukrainian point of view, those territories will be fair game.  Russia will specifically consider Crimea to be sovereign Russian territory. I don't think Russia will be stupid enough to attempt to attack the west, but if Ukraine does start to mount an offensive against Crimea, then maybe Putin will need to attack a NATO country, to claim he didn't lose to Ukraine, but all of the west combined.  That being said, if it gets to that point, I wonder if Putin will still be in power. A lot of guess work in all of this of course, but Crimea is going to be a very tricky situation no matter what.