Former Russian president and current deputy chairman of the country’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, warned Thursday that a Russian defeat in the war with Ukraine «could provoke the outbreak of a nuclear war,» after which the Kremlin has indicated that there are no changes to its defense doctrine.
«Tomorrow, at the NATO base in Ramstein, top military leaders will discuss new tactics and strategies and the supply to Ukraine of new heavy weapons and strike systems,» said Medvedev, who criticized «the mantra that ‘to achieve peace, Russia must lose’.»
«It never occurs to poor people to draw the elementary conclusion that a defeat by a nuclear power in a conventional war can provoke the outbreak of a nuclear war. The nuclear powers have not lost major conflicts in which their fate is at stake,» he said.
Thus, Medvedev has stressed in a message on his Telegram account that «this is something that should be obvious to everyone, even to a Western politician who has retained at least some trace of intelligence.»
Minutes later, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that these statements by Medvedev do not imply changes in Russia’s defensive doctrine, Russian news agency Interfax reported. «This is fully in line with our nuclear doctrine. Read the nuclear doctrine, there are no contradictions,» he has settled.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
