Dmitry Medvedev warns US must take Russia's nuclear warnings seriously to avoid World War III

Moscow has warned the United States that it must take Russia’s nuclear warnings seriously to avoid World War III.

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s security council and the country’s president from 2008 to 2012, warned the United States on Saturday that it was “wrong” to believe that “the Russians will never cross a certain line.”

He told Russian state broadcaster RT that Moscow believes the current US and European political establishments lack the “foresight and tact” displayed by the late Henry Kissinger.

“If we are talking about the existence of our state, as the president of our country has said many times, your humble
The servant said, and the others said, of course, we will have no choice,” Mr. Medvedev said.

Russia has been signaling to the West for weeks that Moscow would respond if the United States and its allies helped Ukraine launch long-range missiles deep into Russia.

US diplomats have previously stated that Washington is not trying to escalate the war in Ukraine.

This is not the first time Mr Medvedev has warned of a serious escalation of the Ukraine conflict.

He returned in September, he was threatened He said Ukraine’s attack on Russia’s Kursk territory provided formal grounds for Russia to use nuclear weapons.

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City officials said that Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, was subjected to an overnight air strike that lasted until noon today and injured one person. All drones were shot down.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who saw it recently North Korean soldiers join the war alongside the Russian armyAttacks were also reported in central Poltava and northeastern Sumy and Kharkiv regions, he said.

“This year, we faced the threat of ‘Shahad’ unmanned aerial vehicles almost every night, sometimes in the morning and even at noon.
he wrote on social media, referring to Iranian-made attack UAVs used by Russia.

Moscow’s forces launched more than 2,000 drones at civilian and military targets, Kiev’s military said on Friday.
Throughout Ukraine in October alone.

Russia has denied targeting civilians and said energy facilities were legitimate targets if they were part of Ukrainian military infrastructure.

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