Mr. Medvedev said that the US pumped weapons to Ukraine to attack Russian territory will cause Moscow to respond and “burn down” the places that Kiev controls.
When asked about the US media’s assessment that the weapons transferred by Washington to Kiev would allow Ukraine to raid the Crimean peninsula and force Russia to negotiate, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev said on February 4. “they were wrong”.
“The result will be the opposite, there will not be any negotiations in this case, only retaliatory raids. All the rest of Ukraine that Kiev controls will be burned down,” Mr. Medvedev said. warning.
Mr. Medvedev said that “only people with monstrous morals” would make the argument that it was necessary to raid Russian territory to force Moscow to the negotiating table, and said that Pentagon officials understood the consequences when this happens.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow speaks in Moscow in February 2022. Image: AFP.
The Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation stated that the country has no restrictions and is ready to “use all kinds of weapons” according to its doctrines, including the Fundamental Principles of Nuclear Deterrence, to respond depending on the nature of the threat.
“If the US really wants to end the conflict that it instigated, it can do this with a snap of its fingers and order its minions to the negotiating table,” Medvedev said, adding that “the government The US and its congressional hawks simply don’t care about that.”
The United States and Ukraine have not commented on the statement of the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
The United States on February 3 announced a new arms aid package to Ukraine worth $2.2 billion, including the Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB), a rocket with a maximum range of 150 km.
The GLSDB is assessed to be capable of threatening Russian logistics lines, bases and arsenals far from the front lines in the Donbass region, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson provinces or northern Crimea.
Name (Theo Reuters, RIA Novosti)