Former Russian president and vice-president of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, returned to his menacing speech this Saturday, warning that sending cluster bombs to Kiev and Ukraine in NATO will mean a “third world war”.
In a Telegram post, the former Russian leader stated that after “shamefully fleeing Afghanistan” and then “ruined the European economy” by supplying hundreds of tons of weapons to Ukraine, the former Russian leader declared an extremely dangerous protracted war”.
“As a result, the Kiev regime is destroying the remnants of its country. With all resources exhausted, [Biden] promises cluster bombs and tempts the neo-Nazis in Kiev again with the prospect of NATO, the implementation of which means a third world war,” he said.
Medvedev, resorting to his usual radical threats and insults, argued that Biden’s actions serve to “dominate and limit other countries”, describing the American statesman as “an old sick man with severe dementia”, who “does not knows what to do”. .
“Maybe everything is different? Maybe […] he just decided to go gracefully, trigger a nuclear Armageddon and take half of humanity with him to the next world”, ended in his attack on the President of the United States.
Joe Biden said the decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine was difficult, but necessary as part of the new military aid package, as “Ukrainians are running out of ammunition” in the midst of a counter-offensive against occupying Russian forces. .
The US president stressed in an interview with CNN that it is not a final decision, but that it will be in effect as long as the country guarantees a sufficient supply of 155 millimeter caliber (mm) artillery, widely used by NATO systems.
In the same vein, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Colin Kahl assured at a press conference that ammunition shipments will be a bridge as the United States of America and European allies expand production of 155mm projectiles.
“This war is about munitions, and them [os ucranianos] are running out of ammunition,” the president of the United States said in an interview that will be broadcast in full today.
These weapons are banned in several countries, mainly in Europe, signatories of the 2008 Oslo Convention, to which neither the United States, Ukraine nor Russia are parties, and their shipment to Kiev has already earned widespread criticism, including from members of NATO.
The use of cluster bombs is highly controversial because the charges they drop may not explode immediately and cause many secondary civilian casualties in the long run.
The Russian military offensive on Ukrainian territory, launched on February 24 last year, exactly 500 days ago, plunged Europe into what is considered the most serious security crisis since World War II (1939-1945).
Source: DN
