The Deputy President of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, warned today the Western countries that allowed Ukraine to use their long-range weapons on Russian territory, that "they will receive a response from such a destructive force, that the Alliance (NATO) itself will simply not be able to resist being drawn into conflict".
In a message published through the Telegram application, Medvedev further warned that "unfortunately, this is not intimidation or a nuclear bluff. The current military conflict with the West is developing according to the worst possible scenario. There is a constant escalation of the power of NATO's applicable weapons. So: today no one can exclude the transition of the conflict to the final stage".
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He reasoned that Western countries "must clearly understand the following" which he stated in three points.
The first is that "all their military equipment and specialists fighting against us (Russia) will be destroyed both on the territory of Ukraine and on the territory of other countries, if attacks on Russian territory are carried out from there."
The second point is that "Russia starts from the fact that all long-range weapons used by Ukraine are already directly controlled by the military personnel of NATO countries. This is not 'military aid' at all, but it is participation in the war against us (Russia). And such their actions can become a 'casus beli' (cause of war)".
The third point is that "NATO will have to decide how to qualify the consequences of possible retaliatory strikes (by Russia) on the equipment/facilities/military personnel of certain countries of that bloc in the context of Articles 4 and 5 of the Washington Treaty" of NATO from 1949 about this that all together must defend a member who is attacked.
Medvedev further wrote in this regard that, "in all likelihood, the NATO leadership wants to pretend that it is a matter of sovereign decisions of certain countries of the North Atlantic Alliance to support the Kiev regime and that there is no reason to apply the rule of the Treaty of 1949 here. on collective self-defense".
"These are dangerous and harmful misconceptions," Medvedev wrote and continued: "Such 'individual assistance' by NATO countries against Russia, whether it is controlling its long-range cruise missiles or sending a contingent of troops to Ukraine, represents a serious escalation of the conflict ".
"The former Ukraine and its NATO allies will receive a response from such a destructive force that the Alliance itself will simply not be able to resist being drawn into the conflict," warned Medvedev.
He then pointed out: "The use of (Russian) tactical nuclear weapons can also be miscalculated, and that would be a fatal mistake. After all, as the President of Russia (Vladimir Putin) rightly noted, European countries have a very high population density. And for those hostile countries that are further from the coverage area of (Russian) tactical nuclear weapons, there is finally a strategic potential," but Medvedev did not specify it.
The text concluded by stating that it is written "not intimidation or a nuclear bluff", that "the current military conflict with the West is developing according to the worst possible scenario", that "there is a constant escalation of the power of NATO's applicable weapons", and that therefore " today, no one can rule out the transition of the conflict to the final phase," which he hinted at.
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