Ukraine’s threat to resume its nuclear program was one of the key reasons that forced Russia to launch its military operation in late February, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday.
Writing on the Russian social media network Vkontakte, he argued that the Ukrainian authorities are now “crying bitterly” over their decision to relinquish the nuclear arsenal they inherited after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Kiev made this decision after caving in to “harsh pressure of their current masters in Washington,” Medvedev, who currently serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, stated. He added that all Ukrainian presidents – from the late Leonid Kravchuk to the incumbent Vladimir Zelensky – described the step as a forced one.
However, according to the official, Kiev has made clear that it “would be diabolically happy” to use nukes against Russia and “their own citizens”.
“They have been dropping explicit hints about this, threatening to resume the nuclear program. And that was one of the reasons for conducting the special military operation,” he insisted.
Medvedev also drew a sharp contract between Ukraine and South Africa, the first country with a nuclear arsenal to voluntarily give it up. He noted that after the collapse of the apartheid regime, the nation’s new democratic authorities “took a responsible and sovereign stance towards their people, neighboring countries and the entire world community”.
“And today they do not regret the choice made 30 years ago, they are proud of it and show the way for others by their example,” he added.
Under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine surrendered its Soviet-era nuclear arsenal in exchange for promises from the US, Britain and Russia that they would “provide assistance” to the country in case of aggression. The three states also vowed not to attack Ukraine themselves.
However, Russian officials have repeatedly stated that this document was undermined by NATO’s eastward expansion, which threatened Moscow’s vital security interests. Moreover, prior to the start of the Ukraine conflict in late February, Zelenksy signaled that Kiev could give up its decades-old pledge to be a non-nuclear nation and reverse the decision it took to give up its atomic weapons.
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Have you heard of ECUMENE 2022, held in Moscow 21 September 2022?
https://esgcongress.com/en
Thanks.
Would you be able to describe this meeting?
It’s a big club and we’re not in it.
All this ESG stuff, Russia is leading it. I’ll hit the other video’s tonight after work.
https://esgcongress.com/en/cop27
Russia is leading ESG? Because of a conference? Bullshit. The Environmental Social Governance agenda is mostly pushed by and in the West – most especially by Blackrock and its CEO, Larry Fink.
You should watch the conference in the thread at top of post. Then come back here and post a more informed comment.
If the West wants to cut off its own balls by ceasing use of fossil fuels and trying to power modern societies with windmills, why shouldn’t Russia cheer them on?
Are you related to Waggaman?
You post the same-style bullshit, making huge claims on a few spotty pieces of “evidence.”
Watch the video opening scene is letter from your idol. Watch the whole thing and make an informed comment.
If you tried to form a coherent sentence, I might be able to judge how informed you are.
But currently, I only see fail.
I think this Commie is a little confused. The time to justify a war is BEFORE you wade into it tits deep…not during.
After it’s over would also be an appropriate time.
For now, how’s about we get on with the ass kickin’ and name takin?
Everything else will shake out after it’s over.
GET IT DONE!
Russia doesn’t need to justify its goals to the West. Russia needs to take care of Russia and it’s doing so. The West is running out of weaponry to send to our puppet regime in the Ukraine. Who’s this “we” that’s supposed to do this ass-kicking? The little light infantry group we’ve had in Romania since June? The Germans and Poles who already gave their tanks to Zelensky?
You might want to peruse the reply I left the other guy.
Didn’t think I’d see the day we were advocating dragging out wars. How much money DO you want to make for your overlords?
“The West is running out of weaponry”
Not to mention diesel fuel…
..or the draining of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
A uniquely counter-intuitive strategy only an idiot – or a maybe just a dementia-ridden, subversive greedy bastard -could justify.
Yo, Central Scrotumizer,
Before you wade in balls deep with an inane opinion, have a plan to keep your balls dry during your shit-eating retreat.
Ukraine is going to get its ass kicked up over its shoulders and NATO won’t need to justify the butt splatter all over their faces because nobody will notice any difference. Uncle Shlemiel’s been shitting on European mugs for 70 years.
Shut yer cock holster, fag. I’ve been 100% with Russia on this whole deal from the beginning. The fuckin guy can’t help it he’s a Commie.
Grow the fuck up.
Who, Biden?
No. Medvedev. Biden could definitely have helped it. He just didn’t.
Good grief, my friend. Take a chill pill. Most of your comments are on the money but you have a habit of going completely ballistic with criticism. Relax, we’re not the enemy. Best Regards to ya.
You know what? If you’re too stupid to know the difference between a “criticism” and an outright lie then fuck you too.
You check my comments and you’ll see I’ve been on Russia’s side in this disagreement from the start.
We’ve broken EVERY Treaty we’ve made with Russia. You tell ME how they aren’t entitled to secure their own sovereign borders.
ALL LIARS ARE MY ENEMY. Most stupid people too. And arrogant fags. They are the worst.
How bout we stay out of it
Little late for that now, don’t ya think? We’re in the steel cage now and the door just locked behind us. Soon the blood will begin to flow in earnest.
Crazy how during the times of the USSR, they were Anti God and America was very Biblical in nature and now, since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has found God and America has lost touch with God. The Lord works in very mysterious ways. Now the worlds future depends on Russia beating the NWO / WEF system.
Apparently the Bolshevik intelligentsia had to spread their disease elsewhere after the Russian host rejected them upon surviving the cold war.
The United States lost touch with God at least as far back as January 22, 1973 …
Doesn’t seem mysterious to me at all, Falcon. He told us exactly how He operates and He left the choice to us.
Every day, in every way, we are given the opportunity to turn everything around…and every day the vast majority CHOOSE not to. Doesn’t really matter why.
That ain’t God’s fault.
Ukraine is the financial playground of the super rich and the amount of money being sent by Biden isn’t being used to support this “War”, it’s being used to finance the destruction of the US and other “Rebellious” nations trying to avoid the WEF goal towards a New World Order and make the filthy rich much wealthier.