{"id":1804,"date":"2026-07-08T15:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/2026\/07\/08\/youre-playing-with-fire-rt-editor-in-chief-warns-europe-full-interview\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:51:17","slug":"youre-playing-with-fire-rt-editor-in-chief-warns-europe-full-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=1804","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You\u2019re playing with fire,\u2019 RT editor-in-chief warns Europe (FULL INTERVIEW)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russian society is nearing the limit of its patience as Kiev\u2019s Western backers assist Ukrainian strikes deep into the country, Margarita Simonyan has said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Europe is <em>\u201cplaying with fire\u201d<\/em> as it assists Ukraine in strikes deep into Russia, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan has said, warning Kiev\u2019s Western backers that Moscow may have no other choice other than to respond with force.<\/p>\n<p>In a lengthy interview with Die Weltwoche&#8217;s\u00a0Roger Koeppel on Wednesday,<em> <\/em>Simonyan said, <em>\u201cit is not Ukraine that is bringing the war to Moscow\u201d<\/em> but rather Europe, as Kiev is incapable of conducting attacks without foreign aid and intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Simonyan warned that Moscow\u2019s patience is running thin as drones, missiles, flight disruptions, and fuel shortages increasingly affect civilians in Russia.<br \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPeople are afraid to sleep at night\u2026 Where is the limit of this hardship, when the people will say, \u2018Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin], we have to respond! I don\u2019t know, but I think it is very close. Very close. Right now, you are playing with fire.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian society is nearing the limit of its patience as Kiev\u2019s Western backers assist Ukrainian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}