5/21/2023 0 Comments Icc google"Ukraine is part of Russia," Medvedev said, adding that almost all of modern-day Ukraine had been part of the Russian empire. Ukraine says it will not rest until all Russian soldiers are ejected from its territory. The West denies it wants to destroy Russia and says it is helping Ukraine defend against an imperial-style land grab. Putin casts the conflict in Ukraine as an existential struggle to defend Russia against what he sees as an arrogant and aggressive West which he says wants to cleave Russia apart. ![]() He said the West now wanted to crack Russia apart into a host of weaker states and steal its vast natural resources. "They were very offended," Medvedev said, adding that the West disliked the independence of Russia and China. "Every day's delivery of foreign weapons to Ukraine brings closer the nuclear apocalypse," Medvedev said.Īfter the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, he said, the West had considered itself the boss of Russia but Putin had put an end to that. Since the war, though, he has turned into one of the most publicly hawkish Russian officials, insulting Western leaders and delivering a series of nuclear warnings. Relations with the West, Medvedev said, were probably at the worst point ever.Īs president from 2008 to 2012, Medvedev cast himself as a pro-Western reformer. ![]() 24 invasion of Ukraine has triggered the deadliest European conflict since World War Two and the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
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