News: Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine would end within days if the West stopped shipping weapons to the battered nation, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said.
“Actually, any war, even a world war, can stop very fast,” Medvedev said Wednesday. “Either if a peace treaty is signed or if one does what the U.S. did in 1945, when it used its nuclear weapons (at) Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They have, indeed, ended the war campaign back then, at a cost of lives of almost 300,000 civilians.”
Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev also made a reference to nuclear weapons as another way to end the war. It’s the second time in a week he has raised the specter of nuclear war, recently saying the invasion of Ukraine could last for decades and “quite probably” could end in nuclear war.
Medvedev also defended the Russian military, which has struggled to gain ground since early land grabs in the 16-month war. The Russian army is “modern and heroic (despite) experiencing certain problems, like any army,’ he said.
