Any weapons in Moscow’s arsenal, “including strategic nuclear weapons,” can be used to protect areas in Ukraine, the former prime minister of Russia and deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation stressed. Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday.
According to Medvedev, the referendums planning regions in Ukraine to join the Russian Federation “will take place” and “there is no going back”.
“Russia has announced that not only mobilization capabilities, but also any Russian weapons, including strategic nuclear weapons and weapons based on new technologies, can be used to protect Donbas and other territories after the referendums on their accession to the Russia,” Medvedev said, according to the Reuters.
It is noted that in his televised address yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that his goal is to “liberate” Donbass in eastern Ukraine, while noting that most residents of the region do not wish to return under the “yoke” of Ukraine.
Putin accused the West of engaging in nuclear blackmail against his country and pointed out that Russia has “many weapons to respond” to what he called Western threats, stressing that it was “not bluffing”.
Source: News Beast
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