“The consequences (of a possible attack in the Crimea) are obvious. If something like this happens, for all of them immediately The day of judgment will come. It will be very fast and very difficult ”.
The words, which today take on another, more disturbing meaning, belong to former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. They were delivered just a few months ago, on July 18, during a minor Russian government event, but in the light of events they resonate more strongly.
Medvedev warned the West about what could happen if Ukraine attacks the annexed Crimean peninsula, now considered Russian territory.
That attack came this morningjust in the week when the alert for the return of nuclear weapons rings louder than ever in more than half a century.
Caused by a truck bomb a fire and the collapse of part of a bridge that connected mainland Russia with the adjoining peninsula of Crimea, according to the Russian authorities. It is a key supply artery for Moscow in its operations in southern Ukraine.
The explosion set fire to seven fuel tanks of a train moving in the direction of the annexed Ukrainian peninsula and damaged infrastructure. The security service Ukraine (SBU) is behind the explosion on the Crimean bridge it happened this morning, according to a source of that body quoted by the Ukrainian digital newspaper Ukrainska Pravda.
Medvedev’s threat and Biden’s response
Medvedev, current vice president of the country’s Security Council and former president from 2008 to 2012, warned that a possible attack in Crimea it would mean the arrival of the “final judgment”. It was during a meeting with WWII veterans in Volgograd, the former Stalingrad, according to the RIA Nóvosti news agency.
“The consequences (of the eventual attack) are obvious. If something like this happens, the day of reckoning will come soon for all of them. It will be very fast and very difficult, “Medvedev said, too had alerted the rest of the countries that “feed the regime” of kiev with money and weapons.
Medvedev had already had very strong expressions against the West during the months in which the conflict was on Ukrainian territory. “I hate those who are against Russia and I will do everything possible to make them disappear, ”he declared in June. “The answer is that I hate them. They are bastards and weak, “he added at the time.
Russian Senator Andrei Klishas previously called for the “demilitarization” and “denazification” of all of Ukraine due to threats from the Ukrainian authorities to attack Crimea.
“The threats (…) to attack Crimea or the Crimean port show that the whole of Ukraine must be denazified and demilitarized, because otherwise there will always be a threat to our territory, our citizens and our infrastructures, ”Russian Senator Andréi Klishas wrote on Telegram, in the same week in which Medvedev launched his threat of a“ final judgment ”.
Last week the Roman newspaper “La Repubblica” warned about information from “NATO intelligence”, which cited the movements of the most modern Russian nuclear submarine, the Belgorod, operational since July.
The strictly controlled Belgorod has dived deeper and its mission could be to test for the first time the super torpedo and drone Poseidon, defined months ago by President Putin as an absolute weapon, baptized “of the Apocalypse”.
American Joe Biden had tried mitigate Putin’s threats about a possible nuclear conflict. It was at a fundraising event with his supporters in New York City. “We haven’t addressed the Armageddon perspective since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis.”
Putin, for his part, had said he would use it “all available means” to defend Russian territory, which he said now includes four provinces of eastern Ukraine that Russia has illegally annexed in recent days.
The risk of a nuclear war has not been higher since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
Source: Clarin
