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In a social media post, Russia’s former president Medvedev again complained about NATO’s threat — and announced military exercises to deal with nuclear weapons.
MOSCOW – Again, the former Russian head of state and Putin supporter Dmitry Medvedev The West threatened the possibility of World War III. This emerges from a recent post by former Deputy Interior Minister of Ukraine Anton Herashchenko on the text messaging service X. In the post, the Ukrainian cited an English translation of a speech the Russian politician had posted on social media.
Accordingly, Medvedev said in his statement that “a choir of irresponsible villains of the West’s political elite” wants to send Western troops “into a state of non-existence” and thus trigger a “world catastrophe”. According to Medvedev, Russia feels motivated by such considerations, and preliminary preparations for military exercises are already underway, including “rehearsal activities for the production and use of non-tactical nuclear weapons.”
Russian politician Medvedev threatens the West and repeats Putin’s reasons for war
The politician is a long-time aide of Russian President Vladimir Putin and headed the government in Moscow with Putin between 2008 and 2020. In 2008, when he replaced Putin as Russian president, he was elected prime minister for four years, reaching the maximum allowed term. When Putin was reinstated as president in 2012, Medvedev became prime minister again. Because of his close ties to Putin, he has been on the West’s sanctions list since the start of the Ukraine war in 2022, and has since repeated threats of violence and wild insults.
In the recording translated by Herashchenko, he also clarified that Medvedev is one of the most ardent supporters of Putin’s official justification for the war in Ukraine. He repeatedly described the Ukrainian government as “Penderites”. The name goes to Stephen Bandera, a nationalist Ukrainian politician who led an organization of Ukrainian nationalists during World War II and collaborated with Nazi Germany. According to Medvedev and Putin, the attack on Ukraine was an attempt by Russia to take action against the current “National Socialist” regime in the country and to “liberate” the people.
Medvedev threatens to attack the West if Russia intervenes further in the Ukraine war
Medvedev’s renewed bitterness is fueled by ongoing arms supplies to Ukraine from the West and discussions about supporting the country against Russia’s war of aggression, allowing Western troops to be used for tasks not directly related to Ukraine. To walk on the edge of battle. According to Medvedev, the group of people who have already commented on it include “representatives of the US Congress, the governments of France and Great Britain, and some crackpots from the Baltic countries and Poland.” In addition, according to Medvedev, representatives of these groups called on Ukraine to “actively use its missiles across the territory of Russia.”
Medvedev only recently made it clear that he was including Ukraine in the region in his own post on the X messaging service, in which he made sarcastic comments about a peace conference in Switzerland in June. In it he referred to Ukraine as “Little Russia” and suggested that for him the state was already a thing of the past.
In his current post, he has advised the West to reconsider efforts to support Ukraine, as sending troops into Ukrainian territory could be seen by Russia as meddling in the war. However, the Russian side will not retaliate against such action on the territory of Ukraine. Medvedev: “In this case, none of them can hide on Capitol Hill or the Elysee Palace or 10 Downing Street.” (of)
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