Monitoring Desk
MOSCOW: Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has warned Nato that a defeat of Russia in Ukraine could activate a nuclear war, Western media reported on Thursday.
Former Russian President and NATO
Deputy chairman of Putin’s powerful security council and former President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev said in a post on social media that the defeat of a nuclear country in a conventional war may trigger a nuclear war. He said that nuclear countries have never lost key conflicts.
The US has denied Moscow’s claims that it wants to destroy Russia, while US President Joe Biden has cautioned that a war between Russia and NATO could trigger World War III.
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But top President Putin allies said the tens of billions of dollars’ worth of European and US military help to Ukraine indicates that Moscow is now in a confrontation with Nato itself – the Cold War nightmare of both Western and Soviet leaders.
Russian Minister for foreign affairs Sergei Lavrov told the media in Minsk that Moscow would do everything to ensure European Union and NATO leaders “sobered up” as soon as.
