Medvedev of Russia proposes to push Poland’s boundaries

• Medvedev made the remarks in a message on his Telegram account.
• The best way for Moscow to achieve long-term peace with Ukraine was to push hostile governments’ boundaries back.
• He stated that the accord would lack “basic agreements on real borders.”

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stated on Friday that the best way for Moscow to achieve long-term peace with Ukraine was to push hostile governments’ boundaries back as far as possible, including NATO member Poland’s.

Medvedev made the remarks in a message on his Telegram account, exactly a year after Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in what it dubbed a “special military operation” to defend Russian speakers and maintain its own security.

Ukraine claims to be defending itself against an unprovoked colonial-style attack and has threatened to recover all of its own territories by force, including Crimea, which Russia invaded in 2014.

On Friday, Medvedev, a close supporter of President Vladimir Putin, predicted that Russia would win and that a loose deal would eventually put an end to the war.

“Victory will be achieved. We all want it to happen as soon as possible. And that day will come,” said Medvedev. He predicted that tough negotiations with Ukraine and the West would follow that would culminate in “some kind of agreement.”

However, he stated that the accord would lack “basic agreements on real borders” and would not amount to an overarching European security treaty, making it critical for Russia to extend its own borders immediately.

“That is why it is critical to achieving all of the special military operation’s objectives. To drive back as far as possible the borders that endanger our country, even if they are Polish borders, “Medvedev stated.

Poland shares extensive eastern borders with Ukraine and Russia’s ally Belarus, as well as a 200-kilometer (125-mile) border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad in its northeastern corner.

Any expansion on Poland’s borders would put Moscow in direct conflict with NATO for the first time. At a speech this week in Warsaw, US President Joseph Biden committed to defending “every inch” of NATO territory if it was attacked.

Since the start of the war, Medvedev, 57, has taken an increasingly belligerent tone and made a number of loud comments, with some political observers speculating he is one of the persons Putin may one day consider as a successor.

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