With a series of chicanes to Western leaders, the vice president of the Russian Security Council, former President
Dmitry Medvedev
, warned on Thursday that the defeat of a nuclear power like Russia in a conventional war could lead
to the outbreak of a nuclear conflict
.
He did so amid questions about sending heavy weapons and attack systems to Ukraine.
"Tomorrow, at NATO's Ramstein base, top military leaders will discuss new tactics and strategies, as well as supplying Ukraine with new heavy weapons and attack systems. And this will be right after the Davos Forum, where belated revelers repeated like a mantra: to achieve peace, Russia must lose," Medvedev said on his Telegram channel.
"And it never occurs to any of these wretches to draw the following elementary conclusion from this: the defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war can lead
to the outbreak of a nuclear war
," he stressed.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has warned of the risk of nuclear war if the attack on Ukraine fails.
(AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Medvedev maintains in his umpteenth attack against the West, that "nuclear powers
do not lose major conflicts
on which their destiny depends."
"But this should be obvious to anyone. Even to a Western politician who has retained at least some trace of intelligence," he insists with the Chicanas.
The former Russian president made the remarks on the eve of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at the US Ramstein airbase in Germany, where kyiv's partners plan to announce major new military aid that will include more weapons and ammunition, as well as armored vehicles and, as the government of Volodimir Zelensky hopes, modern tanks.
The invasion of Ukraine has been going on for almost 11 months, with no favorable results for Russia.
(David Guttenfelder/The New York Times)
The remarks come after Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky criticized Berlin's hesitation to supply his country with tanks, on the eve of a key meeting of its allies in Germany to coordinate military aid to kyiv.
Since the start of the conflict, Western countries have refused to deliver long-range missiles to kyiv, fearing it would trigger an escalation.
Russia has accused the Ukrainian military of carrying out drone strikes in the annexed Crimean peninsula and against targets in Russia, hundreds of kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
With information from EFE and AFP
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