MOSCOW (Portal) – Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev suggested on Sunday that British soldiers training Ukrainian troops in Ukraine were legitimate targets for Russian forces, as were German factories making Taurus missiles if they supplied Kiev .
Medvedev, who is deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council and has become an increasingly aggressive and anti-Western figure in Russian politics, said such moves by the West would bring World War III closer.
In a post on Telegram, Medvedev initially directed his anger at recently appointed British Defense Minister Grant Shapps, who said in a newspaper interview that London also wanted to send military trainers to Ukraine in addition to training Ukrainian forces in Britain or other Western countries at the moment.
“(This will) make their instructors a legal target for our armed forces,” Medvedev wrote on Telegram. “I completely understand that they are being ruthlessly destroyed. And not as mercenaries, but as British NATO specialists.”
Medvedev then turned his focus to Germany, denouncing those who want Berlin to supply Ukraine with Taurus cruise missiles that could hit Russian territory and seek to limit Moscow’s supplies to its army.
“They say this is in accordance with international law. “Well, in this case, attacks on German factories where these missiles are manufactured would also be completely in accordance with international law,” Medvedev said.
“These idiots are actively pushing us into World War III,” Medvedev said.
(Writing by Alexander Marrow; Editing by Guy Faulconbridge)