The Kremlin has issued a stark statement about the U.S. as relations with Washington hit a new low over Ukraine’s use of American-supplied weapons on Russian territory.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, called the United States “an enemy” reportedly for the first time during a press briefing on Tuesday.

Agentstvo, an independent Russian investigative site, said that neither Peskov nor the Russian president has ever called the U.S. or other countries the Kremlin considers to be “unfriendly” an enemy of Russia.

“We are now an enemy country for them, just as they are for us,” Peskov told reporters when commenting on claims made by former American intelligence officer Scott Ritter that he was barred from traveling to Russia and had his passport confiscated by border officials.

In a rare sit-down with international journalists, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Moscow could provide long-range arms to others to strike Western targets.

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