Medvedev says the West will try to intervene in the Russian elections

The former Russian president and current vice president of the Security Council assures that peace with Ukraine is a long way off

March 23 () –

Former Russian president and current vice president of the country’s Security Council, Dimitri Medvedev, has said he believes the West will try to intervene in Russia’s presidential election, scheduled for 2024.

In an interview for the Russian media, he criticized that Western countries “reprove us for interfering, but they have been doing so openly since the collapse of the Soviet Union,” in statements collected by Interfax.

The objective of this intervention, he has accused, would be “to destabilize the political situation and divide the country into parts, negotiate with each of those parts, denuclearize and demilitarize them, and then come to offer their services.”

PEACE IN UKRAINE IS FAR AWAY

He has also assured that peace with Ukraine is far away, in part due to the rejection by this country and the United States of the ‘peace plan’ proposed by China during the visit of its president, Xi Jingping, to Moscow: “To implement any plan it just needs to be studied, not just here, but at least in Washington and Kiev, and this is not the case now.”

For Medvedev, right now it is impossible to reach an agreement with the West in the framework of the war in Ukraine, he assures that “in certain situations it does not make sense to agree, and it is necessary to ignore and in some cases make decisions like the one that was adopted on February 24 last year,” referring to the beginning of Russia’s “large-scale operation” in Ukraine.

He has gone further and stated: “Ukraine is generally a part of Russia, let’s be honest. But for geopolitical and historical reasons, we have endured living with these fictitious borders for a long time.”

THE ARREST OF PUTIN, A DECLARATION OF WAR

Regarding the arrest warrant against President Vladimir Putin, issued last week by the International Criminal Court (ICC), for the alleged war crimes committed under his orders by forcibly deporting Ukrainian children to Russian territory, Medvedev has been clear: an arrest would be an act of war against Russia.

“Let’s imagine it, although it is clear that it is a situation that will never come true. The current head of a nuclear state arrives on the territory of, say, Germany, and is arrested. What is that? A declaration of war on the Russian Federation! In that case, all our media would go to the Bundestag, to the Chancellor’s office, etc.”, he said.

He has accused the CFI of not having done “nothing since its creation”, and has reiterated that “it is not that its powers are doubtful for us, it is that it is insignificant”.