Russia’s Medvedev says arms supplies to Kyiv threaten global nuclear catastrophe

Feb 27 (Reuters) – Russia’s former president and an ally of President Vladimir Putin stated in remarks printed on Monday that the continued arms provide to Kyiv dangers a worldwide nuclear disaster, reiterating his menace of nuclear conflict over Ukraine.

Dmitry Medvedev’s apocalyptic rhetoric has been seen as an try to discourage the U.S-led NATO navy alliance and Kyiv’s Western allies from getting much more concerned within the year-old conflict that has dealt Moscow setbacks on the battlefield.

The newest feedback by Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of Putin’s highly effective safety council, comply with Putin’s nuclear warning final week and his Sunday remarks casting Moscow’s confrontation with the West as an existential battle for the survival of Russia and the Russian folks.

“After all, the pumping in of weapons can proceed …. and stop any chance of reviving negotiations,” Medvedev stated in remarks printed within the day by day Izvestia.

“Our enemies are doing simply that, not wanting to grasp that their objectives will definitely result in a complete fiasco. Loss for everybody. A collapse. Apocalypse. The place you neglect for hundreds of years about your former life, till the rubble ceases to emit radiation.”

Reporting by David Ljunggren and Lidia Kelly; Writing by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Enhancing by Michael Perry

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