One in every of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies ominously urged that Ukraine won’t exist in two years’ time.
Dmitry Medvedev, former president and prime minister of the Russian Federation, who at present serves as deputy head of the nation’s Safety Council, took to his Telegram channel Wednesday to muse about Ukraine’s makes an attempt to safe fuel imports from its Western allies.
“I noticed a report that Ukraine needs to obtain from its abroad masters [liquified natural gas] as a part of a land-lease plan with cost for supply after 2 years,” Medvedev wrote. “In any other case the nation will freeze subsequent winter.
“However right here’s a query. Who mentioned that after two years Ukraine will even exist on the world map?
“However it makes no distinction to the Individuals – they’re so invested of their ‘anti-Russia’ undertaking, that all the things else is trivial to them.”
Mykhailo Podolyak, a prime adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, hit out at Medvedev on Twitter, accusing the saber-rattling Kremlin insider of being the embodiment of Russian imperialism.
“A small man with large insecurities, who sprinkles poison in the direction of Ukraine or threatens the world as the one solution to assert oneself,” Podolyak tweeted. “Ukraine was, is and can be. The query is the place would Dmitry Medvedev be in two years.”
Medvedev has been vocal in his help for what Russia calls its “particular navy operation” in Ukraine, now in its fourth month.
The ex-president has used his social media platform to rail in opposition to Ukraine and its international allies, which have been sending billions of {dollars} price of weapons and navy tools to assist the nation battle off the invaders.
Earlier this month, Medvedev warned Western nations that they need to not await the “4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” however as a substitute attempt to discover a diplomatic resolution to coping with Russia.
