Global Courant 2023-05-31 23:28:38
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev claimed on Wednesday that British officials had become “legitimate military targets” because of the UK’s continued support for Ukraine during Russia’s ongoing invasion.
“The United Kingdom is acting as an ally of Ukraine and providing military aid in the form of equipment and specialists, that is, it is waging a de facto undeclared war against Russia,” he said in a tweet. “If that’s the case, any of its government officials (military or civilian, facilitating the war) could be considered a legitimate military target.”
Medvedev, who is also deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, has become notorious for his outlandish remarks about the war in Ukraine, the threat of nuclear escalation and Russia’s deteriorating relations with Western countries.
Dmitry Medvedev will conduct a meeting via video link outside Moscow on March 16. (Yekaterina Shtukina, Sputnik, Government Pool Photo via AP)
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While his most recent remarks came in response to comments made by British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, who said at a press conference in Estonia on Tuesday that Ukraine has a “legitimate right” to defend itself and can “project” violence beyond its borders. reported Sky News.
Slim told reporters that Kiev has the right to hit “legitimate military targets” outside its borders as part of its self-defense to stop Russia’s war effort.
“We have to recognize that,” he added, marking an apparent shift in how Western allies view the war in Ukraine after more than a year of NATO attempts to balance aid to Kiev while prevent the war from slipping beyond Ukraine’s borders.
British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly arrives in Oslo, Norway, on Wednesday, May 31, 2023, for a ceremony to honor victims of terrorism and extremism ahead of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Medvedev responded to Cleverly by calling the UK Russia’s “eternal enemy”, claiming that under “widely accepted international law regulating modern warfare” – which Moscow has violated by illegally invading Ukraine – the UK “could also be qualified as being at war” given his support for Kiev.
Cleverly’s comments were in response to questions from reporters after a drone strike hit Moscow and damaged three apartment buildings on Tuesday.
Five of the eight drones fired at Moscow – some 500 kilometers from the border with Ukraine – were shot down while the three others were trapped and drifted off course, the Russian defense ministry said.
Russian investigators inspect a building in Moscow, Russia, after a drone attack on Tuesday, May 30. (AP)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin called the attack a “terrorist” act by Ukraine.
Kiev has denied launching the drones at Moscow.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Caitlin McFall is a reporter at Fox News Digital covering politics, US and world news.
