Delivering a bellicose speech in southern Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council and an ally of President Vladimir Putin, declared on Monday, the 4th of March, that Ukraine is part of Russia, rejecting the possibility of peace talks with the current Ukrainian leadership, reports Reuters.
Medvedev said Russia would continue its so-called “special military operation” until the other side surrendered, and that what he called historic parts of Russia should “return home”.
Medvedev spoke in front of a map showing Ukraine as a much smaller landlocked territory,
squeezed against Poland, with Russia in full control of its eastern, southern and Black Sea coasts.
“One of Ukraine’s former leaders once said that Ukraine is not Russia”, Medvedev said, adding that this notion must disappear. “Ukraine is definitely Russia”, he said earning applause from those present.
? Medvedev, amid a map of Russia’s imperial ambitions, said that “Ukraine is definitely Russia”
Dima, go back to the psychiatric ward. pic.twitter.com/hn0osOYZmT
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 4, 2024
He ruled out peace talks with the current Ukrainian leadership under President Volodymyr Zelensky and said any future Ukrainian government willing to negotiate would have to recognise what he called the new reality.
Commenting on relations between East and West, Medvedev, who accused US special forces and military advisers of waging war against Russia, said that relations between Moscow and Washington were worse than during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
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