Former Russian President Medvedev Warns Russia Will Use Nuclear Weapons If Ukraine's Counteroffensive Succeeds

FILE PHOTO: Deputy head of Russia's Security Council Dmitry Medvedev attends a meeting with officials and employees of the military industrial corporation "Scientific and Production Machine Building Association" in the town of Reutov in the Moscow region, Russia, April 25, 2023. Sputnik/Yekaterina Shtukina/Pool via REUTERS /File Photo  

Politico.eu: Nuclear weapons on the table if Ukraine counteroffensive succeeds: Russia’s Medvedev  

There would be ‘no other way out’ if Kyiv takes Russian territory, says the former Russian president and current National Security Council deputy chairman. 

 If Ukraine’s ongoing counteroffensive against Moscow’s invasion captures Russian territory, there would be no alternative to using strategic nuclear weapons, Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev warned on Sunday. 

“There would simply be no other way out” of using nuclear weapons if the Ukrainian offensive succeeded in taking Russian territory, Medvedev, former Russian president and current National Security Council deputy chairman, said in a post on social media. 

“Just imagine that the NATO-supported ukrobanderovtsy’s offensive turned out successful, and they took away a part of our land: Then we would have to, following the president’s degree of 02.06.2020, use the nuclear weapon,” Medvedev wrote, referring to followers of Stepan Bandera, a nationalist leader who waged a violent campaign for Ukrainian independence in the 1930s and 1940s.  

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Former Russian President Medvedev Warns Russia Will Use Nuclear Weapons If Ukraine's Counteroffensive Succeeds  

Russia's Medvedev: We'd have to use a nuclear weapon if Ukrainian offensive was a success -- Reuters  

Medvedev says Russia could use nuclear weapon if Ukraine’s fightback succeeds in latest threat -- CNN  

Former Russian president warns of nuclear response if Ukraine counteroffensive is successful -- The Hill  

‘We'd Have To Use A Nuclear Weapon If Ukrainian Offensive Was A Success’: Russia's Medvedev -- India.com  

Medvedev threatens nuclear weapons in case of success of Ukraine's counteroffensive -- Ukrainska Pravda