Moscow-Russia-January 19, 2023

Referring to the military campaign launched by his country in Ukraine,

Deputy Chairman of the Russian National Security Council Dmitry Medvedev stressed that "the defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war may spark a nuclear war."،

In a Telegram post commenting on NATO's support for the Ukrainian army, Medvedev wrote : "nuclear powers never lose in major conflicts on which their fate depends".

"On Friday, senior military leaders at NATO's Ramstein base are discussing new tactics and strategies, as well as the supply of heavy weapons and new offensive systems to Ukraine. This comes immediately after the Davos forum, where the gathering of politicians from fools repeated slogans along the lines of:"to achieve peace, Russia must lose".

"It does not occur to any of these unfortunate people to draw the following primitive conclusion: the defeat of any nuclear power in a conventional war can lead to the outbreak of a nuclear war, and the nuclear powers have not lost major conflicts on which their fate depends,"he continued.

"One thinks that this should have been clear to anyone, even a Western politician who retains at least some remnants and traces of sanity,"Medvedev recalled.

Earlier, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev considered that the world was "on the brink of a third World War and a nuclear catastrophe", but said that "Moscow will do everything possible to prevent this war and this catastrophe".

In an article published by the state newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, he added that "if Russia does not receive adequate guarantees, tension will continue indefinitely".

He wrote in the article titled "Our people. Our land. Our truth":" the world will continue to be on the brink of a third World War and a nuclear catastrophe", but"we will do everything possible to prevent them".

On the other hand, Medvedev stated that Moscow "does not need to negotiate with the West, and now there can be no talk of trust," considering that "attempts to expand NATO to the East were a preparation for war with Russia".

Medvedev noted that the contrast between Russia and the West is much greater than what unites them, as "the past year was a turning point" in the conflict.

"We have no one to talk to and negotiate with in the west now, there is nothing to talk about and there is nothing to do,"the senior official added.

Medvedev recalled the words of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, when she said that the Minsk agreements were "to give Ukraine time to become stronger," explaining: "Ukraine was originally given time in order to prepare for a bloody war. What the neo-Nazis did in Kiev was with the full complicity or direct assistance of civilized Europeans,"he said.

"The Russian side at that time trusted its partners, not expecting a direct betrayal from them and starting work to destroy Russia,"he noted.

"I remember very well the meeting of Moscow with NATO in Lisbon in 2010, in which I participated as the president of Russia. "NATO members assured us at that time that we did not pose a threat to each other, and they were ready to work with us for the common security of the Euro-Atlantic region,"he said.