Medvedev warns {that a} Russian defeat in Ukraine “might result in the outbreak of a nuclear struggle”


The former Russian president has criticized “the mantra that ‘to realize peace, Moscow should lose'” Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov has said that Medvedev’s statements don’t indicate modifications in Russia’s defensive doctrine

The former Russian president and present vice chairman of the nation’s Security Council, Dimitri Medvedev, has warned {that a} Russian defeat within the struggle with Ukraine “might result in the outbreak of a nuclear struggle”, after which the Kremlin has indicated that there isn’t any modifications to his defensive doctrine.

“Tomorrow, on the NATO base in Ramstein, the primary army leaders will talk about new ways and methods and the availability to Ukraine of latest heavy weapons and assault techniques,” Medvedev stated, criticizing “the mantra that ‘for obtain peace, Russia should lose.

“It by no means happens to the poor to attract the elementary conclusion {that a} defeat by a nuclear energy in a traditional struggle can result in the outbreak of a nuclear struggle. The nuclear powers haven’t misplaced main conflicts wherein their future,” he stated.

Thus, Medvedev has confused in a message on his Telegram account that “that is one thing that ought to be apparent to everybody, even to a Western politician who has withheld not less than some hint of intelligence.”

Minutes later, the Kremlin spokesman, Dimitri Peskov, said that these statements by Medvedev don’t indicate modifications in Russia’s defensive doctrine, as reported by the Russian information company Interfax. “This is totally in keeping with our nuclear doctrine. Read the nuclear doctrine, there are not any contradictions”, he has concluded.