Moscow will have to deal with the problem sooner or later, the former president has told reporters
Dmitry Medvedev speaks to Russian journalists. © Telegram / Dmitry Medvedev
Russia will have to continue fighting Ukraine until it takes Kiev, former President Dmitry Medvedev has claimed. The city has “Russian roots” but is being run by US-led enemies of Moscow, meaning it poses an existential threat, according to the senior official, who currently serves as deputy head of Russia’s National Security Council.
The remarks were extracts from an interview that Medvedev gave to Russian media, which he shared on social media on Thursday.
”Where should we stop? I don’t know,” he said in one of the clips, adding that a lot of “serious work” was lying ahead.
”Will that be Kiev? Probably. This should be Kiev too. If not now, then sometime later. There are two reasons. Kiev is a Russian city, and a threat to the existence of the Russian Federation emanates from it,” he said.
Medvedev identified the source of the threat as an “international brigade of the opponents of Russia, led by the US,” who he claimed are in control of Kiev.
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In a separate video, Medvedev addressed the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa, urging it to “return home.”
“We in the Russian Federation have long been waiting for Odessa, if only because of its history and what kind of people live there and what language they speak. It is our Russian city,” he claimed.