Medvedev warns of global nuclear catastrophe if West’s arms supplies to Ukraine continue

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has warned that the continued influx of  Western weaponry to Ukraine amid the raging war risks a global nuclear catastrophe.

In his remarks published on Monday, Medvedev, a key aide to President Vladimir Putin and deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, urged an immediate halt to the Western supply of heavy weaponry to the embattled government in Kiev.

The Russian official reiterated his threat of nuclear war over Ukraine if Western countries continue to arm Ukraine despite repeated warnings from Moscow.

"Of course, the pumping in of weapons can continue .... and prevent any possibility of reviving negotiations," Medvedev said in remarks published in the daily Izvestia.

"Our enemies are doing just that, not wanting to understand that their goals will certainly lead to a total fiasco. Loss for everyone. A collapse. Apocalypse. Where you forget for centuries about your former life, until the rubble ceases to emit radiation."

The latest comments by Medvedev follow Putin's nuclear warning last week and his Sunday remarks casting Moscow's confrontation with the West as an existential battle for the survival of Russia and the Russian people.

Russia's Medvedev warns of nuclear war if Moscow loses in Ukraine

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has warned NATO that the defeat of his country as a nuclear power in Ukraine could trigger a nuclear war.

Since Russia launched its military operation in Russia a year ago, the US and its European allies have provided billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine, despite repeated warnings from the Kremlin.

US President Joe Biden in his speech on Tuesday said the United States and its allies will “not tire” of backing Ukraine, in a sign that the NATO military alliance is not willing to take a step back. 

The US has been Ukraine’s strongest military partner since the start of the war in February 2022, providing Kiev with more weapons and equipment than all other countries together.

In a list released by the White House on February 20, Washington’s total military assistance to Ukraine has reached approximately $29.8 billion since the start of the war.

Biden administration marked the first anniversary of Russia's military operation on Friday by announcing new military aid to Ukraine and sanctions against Russia.

In an article published in the National Defense magazine last week, as quoted by TASS, Medvedev said Russia is again confronted with an empire of diverse enemies 80 years after the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad.

"History repeats itself. We are again confronted actually with a whole empire of diverse enemies: Ukrainian and European Neo-Nazis, the United States, other Anglo-Saxons and their minions (about half a hundred countries)," he wrote.

Putin on Sunday accused the NATO military alliance of taking part in the Ukraine war by donating arms to the country and hastened to add that the West planned to break up Russia.  

“When all the leading NATO countries have declared their main goal as inflicting a strategic defeat on us (...) how can we ignore their nuclear capabilities in these conditions?” Putin said in an interview.

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