Arms supplies to Kyiv threaten global nuclear catastrophe, says Medvedev

• Dmitry Medvedev says the West’s continuous supply of armaments to Kyiv risked a worldwide nuclear catastrophe.
• The latest remarks by Medvedev come on the heels of Putin’s nuclear warning last week.
• French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna slammed Medvedev’s remarks as “inflammatory rhetoric.”

Moscow: In remarks released on Monday, Russia’s former president and Putin ally stated that the West’s continuous supply of armaments to Kyiv risked a worldwide nuclear catastrophe, echoing his warning of nuclear war over Ukraine.

Dmitry Medvedev‘s apocalyptic tone has been interpreted as an attempt to prevent the US-led NATO military alliance and Kyiv’s Western allies from becoming more involved in the year-old war that has delivered Moscow combat blows.

The latest remarks by Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of Putin’s powerful security council, come on the heels of Putin’s nuclear warning last week and his Sunday remarks in which he cast Moscow’s confrontation with the West as an existential battle for Russia and the Russian people’s survival.

“Of course, the pumping in of weapons can continue …. and prevent any possibility of reviving negotiations,” Medvedev said in remarks published in the daily Izvestia.

“Our enemies are doing just that, not wanting to understand that their goals will certainly lead to a total fiasco. Loss for everyone. A collapse. Apocalypse. Where you forget for centuries about your former life, until the rubble ceases to emit radiation.”

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna slammed Medvedev’s remarks as “inflammatory rhetoric” on the margins of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.

“Mr. Medvedev, alas, has long accustomed us to irresponsible, outrageous statements that in no way reflect reality,” she said. “This is inflammatory rhetoric that we would gladly do without.”

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