Former president Dmitry Medvedev said British troops in Ukraine would be ‘legal targets’ to be ‘ruthlessly destroyed.’
Former president Dmitry Medvedev said British troops in Ukraine would be ‘legal targets’ to be ‘ruthlessly destroyed’ UkraineDmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council and the country’s president between 2008 and 2012, made the comments in a post on Telegram.that Westminster may at some point in the future deploy military instructors to Ukraine in support of Ukrainian forces.
Mdevedev, whose anti-western stance and rhetoric is perhaps staunchest among key Putin allies, hit back and said any presence of UK troops on Ukrainian soil would ‘turn their instructors into a legal target for our armed forces… understanding perfectly well that they will be ruthlessly destroyed’. Medvedev has repeatedly suggested actions by ‘completely crazy’ Western nations meant a global-scale conflict was ‘getting closer’ He further clarified ‘there are no British soldiers that will be sent to fight in the current conflict’.
‘Particularly in the west of the country, I think the opportunity now is to bring more things in country, and not just training. We’re seeing BAE, for example, move into manufacturing in country.In his post on Telegram, Mdevedev added German factories producing Taurus missiles could also prove a target should these munitions find their way to Kyiv.
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