Russia’s top security official threatens nuclear strikes on Ukraine, UK, France

Russia’s Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, has threatened the use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine, as well as France and the United Kingdom, over reports that the two Western nations may provide nuclear technology to Kyiv.

Commenting on the reports in his Telegram channel, Medvedev said information previously disclosed by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service “radically changes the situation.”

He added: “The Foreign Intelligence Service’s information on France and Britain’s intention to transfer nuclear technology to the Kyiv nationalist regime radically alters the situation. This is not about violating the NPT [Non-Proliferation Treaty] or other international law. This is a direct transfer of nuclear weapons to a country at war.”

Medvedev claimed that, should such a development occur, Russia would have the right to deploy “any nuclear weapons, including tactical nuclear weapons, against targets in Ukraine it deems threatening, and, if necessary, against the supplying countries, which would become co-participants in a nuclear conflict with Russia.”

“This is the symmetric response that the Russian Federation is entitled to,” he concluded.

By Aghakazim Guliyev