{"id":294925,"date":"2024-09-16T07:02:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T07:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=294925"},"modified":"2024-09-17T07:03:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T07:03:39","slug":"russias-medvedev-threatens-to-turn-kyiv-into-giant-melted-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=294925","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Medvedev threatens to turn Kyiv into \u2018giant melted spot\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jones Hayden \u2013 Politico Sept 14, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Moscow on Saturday threatened to reduce Kyiv to a “giant melted spot” if Ukraine is allowed by its allies to use Western long-range missiles to strike targets deep inside Russia.<\/p>\n

The threat by Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia\u2019s Security Council, came as the U.S. and the U.K. are deliberating giving Kyiv permission to use Western weapons<\/a> to attack strategic targets farther into Russian territory.<\/p>\n

Medvedev, who likes to rattle nuclear sabers, said the Kremlin already has “formal” grounds<\/a> to use nuclear weapons after Ukraine’s cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region<\/a>, but could instead utilize newer technologies to create a “giant melted spot”<\/a> on the site of the Ukrainian capital.<\/p>\n

Moscow has been “showing patience,” Medvedev said in a post on Telegram<\/a>. “However, the pompous Anglo-Saxon imbeciles do not want to admit one thing: any patience comes to an end.”<\/p>\n

At the same time, Medvedev said “a nuclear conflict is really not needed by anyone,” adding that: “It is obvious that a nuclear response is an extremely difficult decision with irreversible consequences.”<\/p>\n

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and U.S. President Joe Biden, at a meeting in Washington on Friday, deliberated over Ukraine\u2019s possible use of British-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles<\/a> on Russian soil, without announcing any decision.<\/p>\n

Ahead of that meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin late Thursday said giving Kyiv such permission would put NATO countries \u201cat war with Russia.”<\/a> Biden dismissed the threat, telling reporters: \u201cI don’t think much about Vladimir Putin.”<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday renewed Kyiv’s pleas for expanded use of Western weapons. “We are making progress on the battlefield. But we need permission to use long-range weapons<\/a>,” Zelenskyy said. “I hope that the U.S. political community understands this clearly and that the relevant decision will be made.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking after Friday’s meeting with Biden, Starmer said no final decision had been taken on the Storm Shadow missiles. He suggested that further developments may follow<\/a> at the gathering of the U.N. General Assembly later this month.<\/p>\n

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Although former President Medvedev has a habit of making alarmist statements he shouldn\u2019t be dismissed either. While Putin adopts a more statesman like stance, the Kremlin is probably using Medvedev to send serious signals to the West <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295020,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294925\/revisions\/295020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}