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Medvedev again threatens nuclear war amid more deaths in Ukraine
DPA
Sun, February 18, 2024 at 1:14 PM CST
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Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, speaks at a council meeting in Moscow. -/Kremlin/dpa
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, speaks at a council meeting in Moscow. -/Kremlin/dpa
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has once again threatened the West with an all-out nuclear war if Russia is pushed back to its internationally recognized 1991 borders after the war in Ukraine.
In a Telegram post on Sunday, the current deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council reiterated his well-known position that "nuclear powers never lose a war" as long as they defend their homeland.
In a short thought experiment, he discussed the case of Ukraine's success in this war. In his opinion, the return of Ukraine to its old borders would contradict the Russian constitution, especially as the conquered territories in eastern Ukraine and Crimea had already been annexed as integral parts of Russia.
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The 1991 borders are the common, internationally recognized border lines of Russia and Ukraine before the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula by Moscow in 2014 and before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
"And now to the main question: Do these idiots [in the West] really believe that the Russian people would accept such a disintegration of their country?" wrote Medvedev.
On the contrary, the Russian armed forces would deploy their entire arsenal and attack Washington, Berlin or London in addition to Kiev.
He said that these and other "beautiful historical places were entered long ago as targets of [Russia's] nuclear triad," referring to the configuration of land-based intercontinental missiles, submarine-launched missiles and strategic bombers with nuclear bombs.