Dmitry Medvedev said tensions between Russia and the West are worse now than during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
, which has often been cited as perhaps the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a nuclear conflict before cooler heads prevailed.
Medvedev said Western"opponents" set on the"defeat" of Russia have created the current hostile environment. While emphasizing that a nuclear war was unlikely to have any winners, he said it might not be avoidable.possibleRussia's former leader Dmitry Medvedev, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, visits the Aleksin Experimental Mechanical Plant in the Tula region on June 15, 2023.
One resolution, he said, would be to start a third world war, but he added that such a move would be"obviously bad" because even"the victors are not at all guaranteed further prosperity." The former Russian leader added that Russia and the West must continue to negotiate in order to prevent an escalation, but he said that the current Kyiv government"must be annihilated" and"legislatively banned in civilized Europe as a fascist."
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