Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has said that British officials are now legitimate war targets after foreign secretary James Cleverly backed Ukraine’s right to strike Russia.
The threat was made by Dmitry Medvedev, who is a close ally of Vladimir Putin, and claimed the UK’s support for Ukraine amounted to ‘undeclared war’ againstMr Medvedev, the deputy chairman of the Russian president’s security council, tweeted: ‘Today, the UK acts as Ukraine’s ally providing it with military aid in the form of equipment and specialists, i.e. de facto is leading an undeclared war against Russia.
‘The UK’s foreign secretary [James] Cleverly has stated that Ukraine “has the legitimate right to … project force beyond its borders to undermine Russia’s ability to project force into Ukraine itself”. He continued: ‘The goofy officials of the UK, our eternal enemy, should remember that within the framework of the universally accepted international law which regulates modern warfare, including the Hague and Geneva Conventions with their additional protocols, their state can also be qualified as being at war.’, outlining the UK’s efforts to bolster support for Ukraine and Nato.
‘And I know that we both feel it’s important that Sweden joins us at the table in Vilnius, too, as a fully fledged member of Nato, and as an important ally to us all.Russia claims Ukraine attacked the country with a drone But there has been an escalation of incidents within Russia by Kyiv’s military or local groups opposed to the war.
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