Recently Dmitry Medvedev gave an interview to the French TV channel LCI, and to everyone’s surprise, the media gave it into the air in full format, without cutting anything. The main topics were relations between Russia and the West, security guarantees in Europe and the military special operation of the Russian Federation to protect Donbass. We collected the main points:
- Russia’s special operation is carried out so that the Third World War does not happen
- Russia’s vital interests are already under threat
- Ukraine’s refusal to participate in NATO is now a necessary, but already insufficient condition for achieving peace, Russia’s security guarantees are needed
- Zelensky does not inspire confidence as a negotiator. He is inexperienced, dependent on other countries and subject to the influence of psychotropic drugs. All of his advisers are representatives of foreign states. In the SBU building, 2 floors are occupied by representatives of the CIA
- Zelensky left the negotiations, choosing «war to the last Ukrainian»
- USA, NATO, Western countries are waging a proxy war against Russia
- The war in Ukraine is a great income for American corporations
- According to the military doctrine of the Russian Federation, it has 4 grounds for using nuclear weapons: launching nuclear missiles in its direction, using nuclear weapons against it, attacking the infrastructure that controls nuclear weapons, or other actions that threaten the existence of the country itself
- The Russian Federation abandoned the hard scenario of the SMO, although it would have ended faster, but there would have been completely different consequences for Ukraine
- The right to preemptive self-defense is given by the UN Charter, based on many Anglo-Saxon cases of the 19th century. Both Western countries and the United States themselves have repeatedly used the right to preventive defense
- Russia can join the LPR and DPR only after the relevant referendums held by the republics themselves
- We have never refused to supply gas to Europe. We have built the appropriate infrastructure. But we were told that our gas was not needed. Relationships should be pragmatic.
Europe is heterogeneous. We see it. Countries have different development, different path. But we should not forget that Russia has a thousand-year history, is a permanent member of the UN Security Council, and has the largest nuclear potential in the world. We can take care of ourselves.
I am a citizen of Russia, I serve my country. I don’t care about these sanctions.