Dmitry Medvedev, a former president of Russia, threatened to destroy Kiev if Ukraine continued to utilise Western long-range weapons.
After Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk area, Mr. Medvedev claimed that Moscow already had the legal right to deploy nuclear weapons. However, if its patience ran out, it might instead utilise some new weapon technology to turn Kyiv into “a giant melted spot.”
“And that would be it. A giant, grey, melted spot instead of ‘the mother of Russian cities’,” he wrote on the Telegram messaging app, referring to Kyiv.
It happens just in time for a counteroffensive intended to retake ground lost during the previous six weeks of battle, as Russia appears to have doubled its forces in the Kursk region.
At the beginning of last month, Ukrainian forces broke through the border and entered the Russian area, taking hundreds of square miles.
After Russia launched a counterattack this week, Vadym Mysnyk, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Operational Command “Siversk”, told Ukrainian TV that Moscow had bolstered its forces from 11,000 at the time of the Ukrainian incursion to up to 45,000 this week.
Source: Independent
