Nuclear weapons on the desk if Ukraine counteroffensive succeeds: Russia’s Medvedev – POLITICO

If Ukraine’s ongoing counteroffensive in opposition to Moscow’s invasion captures Russian territory, there can be no different to utilizing strategic nuclear weapons, Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev warned on Sunday.

“There would merely be no other way out” of utilizing nuclear weapons if the Ukrainian offensive succeeded in taking Russian territory, Medvedev, former Russian president and present Nationwide Safety Council deputy chairman, mentioned in a submit on social media.

“Simply think about that the NATO-supported ukrobanderovtsy’s offensive turned out profitable, they usually took away part of our land: Then we must, following the president’s diploma of 02.06.2020, use the nuclear weapon,” Medvedev wrote, referring to followers of Stepan Bandera, a nationalist chief who waged a violent marketing campaign for Ukrainian independence within the Nineteen Thirties and Forties.

“That’s why our enemies should worship our warriors. They’re protecting world nuclear hearth from flaring up,” Medvedev mentioned, referring to Russian efforts to cease the Ukrainian offensive.

Medvedev has not been shy in utilizing Russia’s nuclear arsenal to threaten Ukraine and its Western supporters. Throughout Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed coup, Medvedev mentioned the revolt may result in a nuclear warfare.

Earlier than that, Medvedev had mentioned that the warfare in Ukraine may very well be “delivered to an finish inside a number of days” by doing what “the People did in 1945 after they deployed nuclear weapons and bombed two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”