Medvedev: Ukrainians had “nuclear illusions”, hence the “special operation”

THE Russia’s decision to carry out its “special military operation” was heavily influenced by Kiev’s threats to restart its nuclear program, the deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council claimed Dmitry Medvedev on his VKontakte profile on Monday. In fact, he contrasted Kyiv, as an example to avoid, with South Africa as an example to imitate!

He stated that “‘the Kiev regime’ is crying bitterly over the decision of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum to withdraw its nuclear arsenal [της Ουκρανίας] which was inherited from the USSR and was on their territory”.

“Moreover [οι Ουκρανοί ηγέτες είπαν] that they would have used it against us and their citizens with diabolical pleasure,” Medvedev claimed. “Which they no doubt alluded to when they threatened to restart the nuclear program, which largely triggered the ‘special military operation,'” he wrote.

The Russian official said that all Ukrainian presidents, from Leonid Kravchuk to Vladimir Zelensky, they later noted that Ukraine discarded its nuclear arsenal out of necessity, “even though Kyiv had no means of maintaining the ‘power’ it had acquired by accident.” Medvedev also said that “the decision to withdraw the nuclear arsenal from Ukraine was made due to serious pressure from Washington.”

He cited South Africa as the counterexample to Ukraine, because it was “the first and only country that possessed nuclear weapons, the ability to produce them, the command system and the means to be effective to make a major political decision and rejected all of them.” these voluntarily”.

The deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council also noted that the democratic government that came to power after the fall of Apartheid “adopted a responsible and sovereign attitude towards their people, neighboring countries and the entire world community, and today does not regret the choice which she did 30 years ago• she is proud of her, and she offers others a path by her own example.

“That’s exactly why South Africa today it is the most important representative of the global architecture of a new multipolar world order that is taking shape. Pretoria, on an equal footing with Russia, China, India and Brazil, is a key element of the well-coordinated BRICS mechanism,” concluded Medvedev.

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