Pjotr Sauer – The Guardian Dec 18, 2024
The Russian security council deputy head, Dmitry Medvedev, has described the editors of the Times newspaper in Britain as “legitimate military targets” in response to the newspaper’s coverage of the assassination of a Russian general.
Medvedev’s vitriolic comments on Wednesday followed a Times editorial in which the newspaper described the assassination of Lt Gen Igor Kirillov as “a legitimate act of defence” by Ukraine, which has claimed responsibility for the killing.
Kirillov, head of the military’s chemical, biological and radiological weapons unit, was killed along with his assistant when a device attached to an escooter exploded as the two men left a building in a residential area in south-east Moscow on Tuesday morning. Kirillov is the most senior Russian military official to be killed in an assassination away from the frontlines since the start of the Kremlin’s offensive in Ukraine nearly three years ago.
“Those who carry out crimes against Russia … always have accomplices. They too are now legitimate military targets. This category could also include the miserable jackals from The Times who cowardly hid behind their editorial. That means the entire leadership of the publication,” Medvedev, who served as Russia’s president between 2008 and 2012, wrote on his Telegram channel.
In a thinly veiled threat, the hawkish former president added that journalists at the Times should “be careful” as “anything goes in London”.
Responding to Medvedev’s post, the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, wrote on X that his “gangster threat against Times journalists smacks of desperation”.
“Our newspapers represent the best of British values: freedom, democracy and independent thinking,” Lammy wrote alongside a picture of himself reading the Times.
Asked about Medvedev’s comments, the UK prime minister’s official spokesperson said they were “simply the latest in a series of desperate rhetoric coming from Putin’s government.”
The spokesperson added: “Unlike in Russia, a free press is a cornerstone of our democracy and we take any threats made by Russia incredibly seriously.”
Medvedev, who cast himself as a liberal reformer promising modernisation and democratisation upon becoming president in 2008, has reinvented himself as one of Russia’s most vocal pro-war figures.
He is now best known for his fiery anti-western tirades on Telegram, which some observers see as a desperate attempt to maintain political relevance.
Still, Medvedev remains a prominent Putin confidant and recently travelled to Beijing for talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, one of Russia’s key allies.
In the same post on Wednesday, Medvedev also threatened Nato officials assisting Ukraine.
“There’s a whole legion of them. There’s not even enough space to list them, but all these individuals can and should be considered legitimate military targets for the Russian state. And for all Russian patriots for that matter,” he wrote.
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Moscow has banned dozens of British journalists, media representatives and senior UK politicians from entering the country.
More than 56,000 primary school children in England will spend Christmas homeless, according to new figures that show that one in nine pupils in some London primary schools don’t have a place to live.
and starmer gives our homes to foreign scroungers
Ministry of Housing data obtained and analysed by charity Shelter found that in London at least one in 24 primary school children are living in temporary accommodation, with the group’s chief executive, Polly Neate, using the figures to urge the government to accelerate the construction of homes for our own people
Starmer has been called a filthy racist and a dirty jewboy as he has shit on his own electorate
They may scoff at Medvedev’s words but he probably means what he says and one day he’ll likely be the head of the Russian Federation. Like Putin he’s also a lawyer so like Putin his responses will no doubt be within Russian and international law. They just won’t be as restrained.
Screw the fat idiot in the garish costume, Kirillov, who allegedly got whacked as part of a sideshow bit in the distractionary theater for idiots labeled as the Russia-Jewkraine war. But i am completely on-board with targeting editors of the Times for liquidation…and by “the Times” I mean all Jew-controlled propaganda outlets of the cartel. Every stinking one of them who helped terrorize the saps during the convid-1984 war, every one of them that stuck to the scripted narrative of 9/11 and 7/7, every one of them not speaking out about the Palestinian genocide, and so on. And not just the editors, oh no, from the owners and / or the board of directors on down to the editors to the talking heads and “reporters” to the guy operating the mic boom and the ambitious sap in the mailroom, and ESPECIALLY the fake “fact-checkers”, if they work for a cartel propaganda outlet that betrays the citizenry on a daily basis, then they deserve to be targeted, chased through the streets, and made to pay for their crimes.
The sooner ZOGUK’s Gutter Press is wiped off the face of the Earth..
the BETTER!!!
If ZOG finds legitimate targets in Russian officials, then what is not a legitimate target for the Russians, in US, UK, or anywhere else in NATO?
They do this deliberately, to make peace impossible.
There is only One Final Solution to the Jewish Problem.
YES he is right ! from 1st worldwar on to 2nd
the mainguilty after the politicians were always
the writing jew whores inciting hatred propaganda
+ misleading the sheepish trusting public .
BOMB THEM LIKE THEY BOMB GAZA !
Dimetry, don’t just stop with the Times but do us a favor and hit every MSM network fueling the fires of war, and don’t forget to go after our political leaders and the heads of the Western corporatocracy.