Russia must explain to humanitythat Moscow’s actions against Ukraine are a response to an attempt at “aggression” by the US. This was stated by the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia and head of the ruling United Russia party, Dmitry Medvedev, at a meeting of its high bureau, Russian media reported.
“Our party must help the people of the world understand that the special operation that is being carried out has become coercive and last measure, in response to preparations for aggression by the United States of America and their satellites. Well, it’s obvious that the world is really closebecause of what was happening, came closer to the threat of World War III“, said Medvedev.
According to him, today the institutions of multilateral diplomacy are going through a very serious crisis. “The United Nations … other international platforms were once created to resolve disputes and conflicts. And now they have become a battleground, and our opponents are trying to gather a large number of votes in support of absolutely anti-Russian initiatives.”
He also stated that “the struggle against the external enemy is now much more important to us than party differences“, so United Russia can help “other ideological forces in our country to build a dialogue with foreign parties ideologically close to them”. “Now this is in our interest, in the interest of the whole country,” Medvedev said.
While the political forces that “try to conduct” policy against the Russian state “generally, must be eliminated from the political landscape”.
At the end of December 2022, Medvedev also published an article in Rossiyskaya Gazeta stating that the decision to start military operations in Ukraine was a “forced step under the pressure of circumstances” as it was not only about “defense of the fraternal republics of Donbas”, but also “for the security and sovereignty of Russia itself” and its “survival”. He also claims that if Russia does not receive guarantees of maximum securitythe voltage will continue indefinitely and the world “will continue to teeter on the brink of World War III and nuclear catastrophe“.
