A new threat comes from again from high-ranking security official Dmitry Medvedev warned today that if the West supplies nuclear weapons then Moscow could consider such a transfer equivalent to an attack on Russia, which would provide justification for a nuclear response. A source for Dmitry Medvedev’s new threats the New York Times report of last week that said western officials, whom he did not name, suggested that US and outgoing president Joe Biden give Ukraine, although there are fears that a step of this kind would have serious consequences. “American politicians and journalists are seriously discussing the consequences of transporting nuclear weapons to Kiev,” noted Medvedev, who served as president of Russia from 2008 to 2012, in a post on Telegram. Medvedev also warned that even the threat of such a transfer of nuclear weapons could be considered a preparation for a nuclear war against Russia. “The actual transfer of such weapons can be equated with the accomplished event of an attack on our country,” based on Russia’s recently revised nuclear doctrine, the Russian high-ranking security official concluded. At the same time Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today that NATO stopped keeping up appearances proclaiming the possibility of preventive wounds against Russia, according to the Russian state news agency TASS.
New threats Medvedev: “If the US gives nuclear weapons to Ukraine, there will be nuclear war”
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