Former Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev has responded with sarcasm and criticism at the leading industrialized countries (G7)’s support for Ukraine. “To put it mildly, our country doesn’t care if the G7 doesn’t recognize the new borders,” he said in his Telegram channel on Saturday about the G7’s statement that they “never” want to recognize border changes that Russia would have with military personnel. to enforce violence.
In this case, according to Medvedev, only the will of the people who live there matters. For several weeks there has been speculation about referendums in parts of Ukraine occupied by pro-Moscow forces for annexation to Russia. The 56-year-old again referred to Kosovo, which the Kremlin sees as a precedent for potentially shifting borders.
He described the G7 promise to Kiev to continue supplying arms to Ukraine as a continuation of a “secret war against Russia” and the planned reduction in dependence on Russian energy resources as “looting” the citizens of the G7 countries, who now pay more. would have to pay prices to support the “corrupt regime in Ukraine”. In general, Medvedev criticized the statements at the G7 meeting as lying.
Medvedev: harsh critic of the West
The ex-Russian president, who during his tenure was seen as more liberal than current Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, has made a name for himself since the start of the war with a series of sharp statements against the West and Ukraine. He equated Ukraine with the National Socialist Third Reich and denied its right to exist, threatened to expropriate Western companies in Russia and threatened to station nuclear weapons in Russia’s Baltic region if Sweden and Finland joined NATO.
Source: Krone
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