“Division and betrayal lead to the greatest tragedy, to world catastrophe,” warned the former Russian president.
247 — Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said: “The most important thing to defeat the external and internal enemy that wants to tear our homeland to pieces is to unite around the President and the CommanderinChief of the Armed Forces.”
“Division and betrayal lead to the greatest tragedy, a global catastrophe,” he warned in a Telegram post, vowing that the Russian authorities would not allow it.
rt The best thing Russians can do in the face of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s uprising is to unite behind President Vladimir Putin, former Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday.
In a statement on Telegram, Medvedev, who now serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said that “the most important thing now in order to defeat the external and internal enemy who wants to tear our fatherland to pieces is to unite the President.” and CommanderinChief of the Armed Forces”.
“Fractures and betrayals lead to the greatest tragedy, to a world catastrophe,” Medvedev warned, promising that the Russian authorities would not allow this.
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“The enemy will be crushed! Victory will be ours!” he added, apparently paraphrasing Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov’s famous dictum on June 22, 1941, hours after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
On Friday, Prigozhin claimed the Russian Defense Ministry carried out a missile attack on a Wagner camp that killed several people. The ministry rejected the accusation and accused Prigozhin of spreading untruths. Criminal proceedings were instituted against the Wagner boss for alleged participation in a conspiracy to incite an uprising.
On Saturday morning, Putin delivered a nationwide speech condemning Prigozhin’s demarcation as rebellion and “proud in the back” and urging his supporters to “make the only right decision and stop engaging in criminal activity.”