Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday (11) denounced the promise of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit to grant eventual membership to Ukraine and said that Russia must work for the “disappearance” of Ukraine and the military alliance.
In a social media post, Medvedev quoted in English the NATO statement from a summit in Washington this week: “We will continue to support [a Ucrânia] on its irreversible path towards full Euro-Atlantic integration, including NATO membership.”
He continued, in Russian: “The conclusion is obvious. We must do everything so that Ukraine’s ‘irreversible path’ to NATO ends with either the disappearance of Ukraine or the disappearance of NATO. Or better yet – the disappearance of both.”
Medvedev, who during his 2008-2012 presidency was seen as a pro-Western modernizer, has reinvented himself as an arch-hawk since the start of the war in Ukraine, something Moscow calls a “special military operation.”
In particular, he has repeatedly warned the US and its allies that arming Kiev could lead to a “nuclear apocalypse.”
Any decision on the use of Russian nuclear weapons would rest with President Vladimir Putin.
But diplomats say the views of Medvedev, who is deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, give an indication of hawkish thinking at the top of the Kremlin, which has cast the war as an existential struggle with the West.
Source: CNN Brasil
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