Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday warned the “West” against sending heavy weapons to Ukraine, saying Russia’s defeat could trigger a nuclear conflict.
“At the NATO base in Ramstein (Germany) the great leaders discuss new tactics and strategies, as well as the supply of new weapons and attack systems to Ukraine. This comes after the Davos Forum where revelers ‘mentally retarded ‘ they repeated it like a mantra: ‘to achieve peace, Russia must lose.’ And it never occurs to any of these wretches to draw an elementary conclusion: the defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war can provoke a nuclear war,” he said. the vice president of the Russian security council, in a post on the Telegram social network, on the eve of a meeting at the NATO base in Ramstein, Germany.
“Nuclear powers have never lost major conflicts on which their own fate depends,” he added. “This should be obvious to anyone. Even a Western politician who retains at least the tiniest shred of intelligence.”
kyiv-supporting countries are expected to announce new military aid to Ukraine.
Russia and the United States possess about 90% of the world’s nuclear warheads. The final decision on the use of nuclear weapons rests with Putin.
NATO has conventional military superiority over Russia, but when it comes to nuclear weapons, Russia has nuclear superiority over the alliance in Europe.
The military offensive launched on February 24, 2022 by Russia in Ukraine has so far caused the flight of more than 14 million people -6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.9 million to European countries-, according to the The latest data from the UN, which classifies this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since the Second World War (1939-1945).
Right now, 17.7 million Ukrainians need humanitarian aid and 9.3 million need food aid and shelter.
The Russian invasion – justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin as the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security – was condemned by the wider international community, which has responded by sending arms to Ukraine and imposing them on Russia in political and economic sanctions.
The UN presented as confirmed since the beginning of the war 7,031 dead civilians and 11,327 wounded, stressing that these figures are far below the real ones.
Source: TSF
