“Words can often have consequences”: Donald Trump replied the comments of the “provocative” of the former Russian president. The White House tenant announced this Friday, August 1, the deployment of two nuclear submarines. An announcement that follows a publication on the social networks of Dmitri Medvedev on July 28. The former Russian president said that “every new ultimatum launched is a threat and a step towards war.”
The US president gave in June a 50 -day period to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to end the war under penalty of sanctions, before reducing it this week Ten days, until next Friday.
But for the former Russian leader, it is “a threat and a step towards war” that could lead to a war “not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country.” “Finish and incendiary statements,” said Donald Trump.
Threats of “preventive strikes” against the West
In recent times, Dmitri Medvedev has multiplied the diatribes against the White House tenant, qualifying on July 15 as “Theatrical” the ultimatum.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion against Ukraine, which today is number two of the Russian Security Council has multiplied with stormy sentences, multiplying diatribes against support in Ukraine. For example, on July 17, he threatened to “launch preventive attacks” against the “treacherous nature of the West.”
“Has the threat of a nuclear conflict passed? No, it did not happen. It increased. Every day, when foreign weapons are delivered to Ukraine, finally brings this same nuclear apocalypse …” he said in 2023.
Last February, he also described Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “Cocaine.”
In the field of conflict, Russian attacks against the Ukrainian territory have multiplied. In July, Moscow has launched more drones against Ukraine that in any other month since the beginning of the invasion in February 2022.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, said Friday that he wanted a “lasting peace” in Ukraine on Friday, his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky called him, In response, gather to negotiate. Among the requirements of the Kremlin, the sale of four regions of the south and east of Ukraine, as well as Crimea, the “demilitarization” of the country and its resignation to join NATO, which kyiv judges unacceptable.
Source: BFM TV
