Published 4th Sep, 2022

By Tola Owoyele

Dimitri Medvedev, former President of Russia and current deputy secretary of the country’s security council, has warned the United States of America and the entire west of ‘doomsday for mankind’ over their continued interference in his country’s invasion of Ukraine.

According to the the Daily Mail UK, Medvedev alleged that the west wanted to use the invasion of Ukraine to paralyse Russia, describing the attempt as a ‘game of chess with death that would end in doomsday for mankind’.

Medvedev said the west’s ultimate goal was to shred Russia into pieces just like it successfully did with the break-up of the USSR in 1991. The former president said that another attempt to forcefully disintegrate Russia would have ‘apocalyptic consequences’.

“Some in the west would like to take advantage of the military conflict in Ukraine to push our country to a new twist of disintegration, do everything to paralyse Russia’s state institutions and deprive the country of efficient controls, as happened in 1991,” Medvedev wrote on his messaging app channel.

“Such attempts are very dangerous and mustn’t be underestimated. Those dreamers ignore a simple axiom: a forceful disintegration of a nuclear power is always a chess game with death, in which it’s known precisely when the check and mate comes: doomsday for mankind.”

Medvedev served as Russia’s president between 2008 and 2012 when term limits forced Vladimir Putin, the current president, to step aside and take the role of prime minister.

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