Shortly after Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) claimed that the United Kingdom and France are allegedly working to provide Ukraine with nuclear weapons and delivery systems, Medvedev posted a new incendiary message on social media, asserting that Russia has the right to a “symmetrical response.”
He said the SVR’s information about France and Britain intending to transfer nuclear technologies to what he called the “Kyiv Nazi regime” “radically changes the situation,” because it would be a “direct transfer of nuclear weapons to a country at war.”
“There can be not a shadow of a doubt that if events develop this way, Russia will have to use any weapons, including non-strategic nuclear weapons, against targets in Ukraine that pose a threat to our country. And, if necessary, against supplier countries, which become accomplices in a nuclear conflict with Russia.”
Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation has not yet commented on Medvedev’s statement.
A day earlier, Medvedev issued another threat. After the European Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said on February 23 ahead of an EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels that the bloc is working to restrict entry to the Schengen area for former Russian servicemembers, Medvedev posted an insulting message to her on X.
“Kaja, a blond rat, said she’s working to ensure that hundreds of thousands of former Russian servicemen never enter the Schengen area. What a loss for our fighters! Well, they can enter without visas if they want. As in 1812 or 1945. Happy Defender of the Fatherland Day!”
Medvedev has repeatedly issued threats against Ukraine, Ukrainian and Western politicians, and Western states. In one social media post, he raised the possibility of a “nuclear apocalypse” if the West does not stop supplying weapons to Ukraine.
Earlier in February, Medvedev said Russia is prepared to use nuclear weapons if it believes there is a threat to its existence.
Meanwhile, Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov also renewed nuclear threats and suggested detonating a nuclear bomb in space, after new restrictions emerged on the use of Starlink by Russia’s armed forces.
