Against the background of the recent escalation in Ukraine in recent days, in which targets were also attacked in the west and south of the country by a barrage of missiles that killed a large number of civilians, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev escalated verbal rhetoric against Kyiv.
Medvedev said on Sunday that the refusal of the West and Ukraine to recognize Russian sovereignty over the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed by force and under a false pretense of protecting Russian-speaking residents in 2014, could be grounds for breaking the tools on the part of Moscow.
He added that any attempt to occupy the area by force would lead to a response he defined as "doomsday."
"If any country, whether Ukraine or NATO, believes that the Crimean peninsula is not part of Russia, then it is a threat to our system against us, it is a direct and explicit threat."
As you may recall, Ukraine offered to put the Crimean issue off the negotiating table for 15 years in the framework of the peace proposals it submitted to the Kremlin, but Russia rejected this option out of hand. Recent years), which is interested in repelling the Russian attack from the east and is fighting for its very existence.
Medvedev said that if the strategic peninsula is attacked, "Judgment Day will come very quickly and will be very painful. It will be very difficult to hide from it."
It is not clear what exactly Medvedev meant, who served as president for the previous decade as part of an exercise designed to allow him to allow Dimir Putin to continue to rule the Russian Federation without changing the constitution.
During Medvedev's "presidency," Putin served as prime minister, but was in fact the de facto ruler.
Medvedev has previously warned the West that an attack by Russia could endanger the future of humanity, and the current situation comes shortly after a senior Ukrainian intelligence official raised the possibility that Ukraine would use the advanced weapons systems provided by the West to attack the Crimean peninsula.
The same senior Ukrainian official said that Russia was using the region to attack Ukraine, so a military response to Russia in the peninsula would be justified in self-defense.
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