The deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council has declared that his country will not negotiate if Crimea is targeted and has threatened to launch a retaliatory attack using all weapons, including “nuclear,” in proportion to the threats.
In detail, the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, said that his country would not impose limits on itself when responding to any attacks on its territory from Kiev, showing “willingness to use all kinds of weapons.” “To respond to that,”
Medvedev added during press statements: “Our response can be anything. And the Russian president has confirmed it.” “We will not impose any restrictions, and depending on the nature of the threats, we are ready to use all kinds of weapons.”
Medvedev stressed that if Ukraine invades Crimea, “there will be counter-attacks, and the remaining Ukrainian lands under Kiev’s control will be reduced to ashes.”
In a related context, the adviser to the president of the Russian Republic of Crimea for media policy, Oleg Khrushkov, described the threat of Kiev authorities to launch a missile attack on the peninsula as “barking from under the sofa.”
Earlier, Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser in the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said that after agreeing with the West on the supply of tanks, Kiev was negotiating the supply of long-range missiles and aircraft for attacks in Crimea.
Nuclear threat
This is not the first time that a nuclear response has been threatened by statements from Kiev or the West. The head of the Social Council in Crimea, Alexander Furmanchuk, said any attempt to bring Crimea under Ukrainian control would “immediately” break out into nuclear war.
In an interview with the Novosti agency, Furmanchuk warned that “any attempt to seize Crimea and return it to Ukraine will immediately turn into a global nuclear conflict, and Russia will not condone it.”
Furmanchuk’s remarks were in response to former CIA Director Petraeus David’s remarks about the possibility of restoring the peninsula, which Russian President Vladimir Putin seized in 2014.
