The vice president of the Russian Security Council, Dmitri Medvedev, has warned in his Telegram account that “World War III is getting closer”relating it to the increase in military aid from NATO countries to Ukraine.
“The delusional West could not invent anything else. Predictability at the highest level, even idiocy. In fact, it is a dead end. World War III is getting closer,” wrote Medvedev (Russian president between 2008 and 2012). .
The former president stressed that at the NATO summit in Vilnius it was agreed increase military aid to Ukraine “with everything possible: missiles, cluster bombs and planes”. Medvedev has questioned “What does this mean for us? It is obvious: the special military operation (in Ukraine) will continue with the same objectives”, and he has specified that one of them is that the “Nazi kyiv grouping renounces to become a member of NATO”. According to Medvevev, for this “this group will have to be liquidated, something possible and necessary.”
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NATO has made it clear that it rules out Ukraine’s inclusion in the Alliance until “the conditions are met.” The members have not established a timetable or roadmap, which has upset Volodymyr Zelensky.
Member states have shown discrepancies on this issue. While Poland and the Baltics supported Zelensky’s bid, the United States and Germany fear that giving Kiev the green light will lead to open war between NATO and Russia. “We would be at war with Russia, if this scenario occurs“said the president of the United States, Joe Biden, in an interview on the .