Russia’s former president Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday said the country will “disappear” if it loses the war in Ukraine.
“If Russia stops the special military operation without achieving victory, Russia will disappear, it will be torn to pieces,” Medvedev said in a Telegram post, using the Kremlin’s euphemism for its invasion of Ukraine. “If the US stops supplying weapons to the Kyiv regime, the war will end.”
The comments from Medvedev, the deputy chair of Russia’s Security Council and a key ally of President Vladimir Putin, follow US President Joe Biden’s speech in Poland on Tuesday.
In his speech, Biden said, “If Russia stopped invading Ukraine, it would end the war. If Ukraine stopped defending itself against Russia, it would be the end of Ukraine,” which Medvedev claimed was “a refined lie.”
“Why does he appeal to the people of another country at a time when he is full of domestic problems? With what fright should we listen to a politician from a hostile…
