Russia’s Deputy Chair of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said in a Telegram post on Tuesday that a U.S. transfer of nuclear weapons to Ukraine will be viewed as a nuclear attack on Russia. The U.S., U.K. and France are already striking Russia with nuclear-capable missiles that have been tipped with conventional explosives, so far.
“Moscow will consider any threat of nuclear arms being supplied to Ukraine by the U.S. as preparation for a direct war with Russia,” RT summarized Medvedev’s Russian statement in English.
Merely the transfer of nuclear weapons to Ukraine may be viewed as an actual launch of a nuclear attack, according to Medvedev.
“The fact of transferring such weapons may be considered as the launch of an attack against our country in accordance with Paragraph 19 of the ‘Basic Principles of State Policy on Nuclear Deterrence‘,” Medvedev said, according to RT on Tuesday.
The former Russian President also commented on lame-duck Joe Biden’s ongoing hostilities.
“Looks like my sad joke about crazy senile Biden, who’s eager to go out with a bang and take a substantial part of humanity with him, is becoming dangerously real,” he said, according to RT on Tuesday.
Medvedev described the West’s idea to give Ukraine nuclear weapons as one of ‘massive paranoid psychosis’.
“Medvedev argued that the idea of ‘giving nukes to a country that’s at war with the greatest nuclear power’ is so absurd that Biden and anyone else considering such a step must have ‘massive paranoid psychosis’,” RT said Tuesday.
In October, Ukrainian ruler Vladimir Zelensky presented his ‘victory plan‘ which included continued war against Russia as well as three classified points. Soon after, it was reported that Ukraine may ‘attain’ nuclear weapons, followed by Zelensky publicly calling to have nuclear weapons, then denying it.