The Kremlin at present threatened to fireplace nuclear missiles on London, Washington, Berlin and Kyiv if Russia is compelled to surrender the Ukrainian territory it has invaded.
Dmitry Medvedev – an in depth Putin ally who served as president from 2008 to 2012 – mentioned if a navy defeat led to a return to the 1991 frontiers, when the Soviet Union collapsed, Moscow would unleash Armageddon.
‘Attempts to return Russia to the borders of 1991 will result in just one factor,’ he mentioned. ‘Towards a world warfare with Western international locations utilizing the complete strategic arsenal of our state. In Kyiv, Berlin, London, Washington.’
Hypersonic nuclear missiles would additionally strike ‘all different stunning historic locations which have lengthy been included within the flight targets of our nuclear triad.
‘Will now we have the braveness to do that if the disappearance of a thousand-year-old nation, our nice Motherland, is at stake, and the sacrifices made by the folks of Russia over the centuries shall be in useless? The reply is apparent.’
Dmitry Medvedev (pictured) – an in depth Putin ally who served as president from 2008 to 2012 – mentioned if a navy defeat led to a return to the 1991 frontiers, when the Soviet Union collapsed, Moscow would unleash Armageddon
School quantity 18 is destroyed in a Russian missile assault on Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on February 17
A Ukraine tank crew drives via roads close to town of Avdiivka on February 17. As the Ukrainian military retreats from Avdiivka, experiences of heavy losses proceed and Russian forces advance shortly
Civilians participate in a navy coaching exercise day carried out by the Ukrainian Volunteer Army on February 17 because the warfare’s two-year mark nears
A view of destroyed constructing, situated close to a frontline place, after Russian shelling because the warfare between Russia and Ukraine continues in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on February 16
Ukrainian cops and rescue employees clear the rubble of a destroyed personal home after a Russian rocket assault in Kramatorsk, Donetsk area, on February 17
This handout {photograph} taken and launched by National Police of Ukraine on February 14, 2024, exhibits a hospital constructing destroyed because of a missile assault in Selydove, Donetsk area
He instructed Kyiv and the West ought to enable Putin to have the bits of Ukraine he thinks of as Russia.
‘It’s higher to return the whole lot [to us] earlier than it is too late. Or we’ll return it ourselves with most losses for the enemy. Like in Avdiivka. Our warriors are heroes!’
Medvedev, deputy head of the Russian safety council which controls the warfare, hit out at ‘snotty Anglo-American fosterlings’ who oppose Putin.
The British and German defence ministers Grant Shapps and Boris Pistorius had been ‘***holes’ who imagine the world can’t afford a Russian victory within the warfare, he mentioned on his Telegram channel.
If they obtained their method, there could be a ‘direct and irreversible collapse of present-day Russia’ together with its newly-invaded territories.
There might be ‘violent civil warfare with the ultimate disappearance of our nation from the world map, tens of thousands and thousands of victims, the demise of our future.’
He requested: ‘Do these idiots actually imagine that the folks of Russia will swallow such a division of their nation?
‘That we’ll all suppose one thing like this: “Well, alas, this happened. They won. Today’s Russia has disappeared.
“It’s a pity, after all, however we should proceed to stay in a collapsing, dying nation, since a nuclear warfare is far more horrible for us than the demise of our family members, our kids, our Russia…”?
‘The West should not think that in such a scenario the leadership of Russia will ‘tremble in its hand’ in pushing the nuclear button.’