Ukraine-Russia, Medvedev: “World War III Prologue”

Ukraine asks for security guarantees, for Russia it is the “prologue of the third world war”. The head of the Ukrainian presidency office, Andriy Yermak, and the former NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, have presented recommendations on possible security guarantees for Ukraine. The document was published on the Ukrainian presidency website, Ukrainska Pravda reports. The guarantees should be backed by several allied countries, which could be the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Poland, Italy, Germany, France, Australia, Turkey, as well as the Baltic countries and nations of northern and central-eastern Europe. Read also Among the points highlighted by the report, the need for resources to maintain a significant defense force in the face of Russian threats: lasting investments for the Ukrainian war industry, arms supplies, joint exercises with NATO and EU countries, training missions intensive and intelligence sharing. Security guarantees must be politically and legally binding and such as to prevent a new aggression. They must also foresee the measures that would be taken immediately in the event of a new threat to the sovereignty and integrity of Ukraine. The report points out that security guarantees are not an alternative to Ukraine’s ambition to join NATO. Russia’s response came with words that Dmitri Medvedev, vice president of the Federation Security Council, spread via Telegram . “The ‘security guarantees’ are in fact a prologue to the Third World War. Of course, no one will give any ‘guarantee’ to the Ukrainian Nazis. After all,” the project “is almost equivalent to applying Article 5 of the North Atlantic Pact” which provides NATO intervention in the event of aggression against a member country. So, yet another threat to Western countries: “If these idiots continue to supply the Kiev regime with the most dangerous types of weapons, sooner or later the military campaign will move to another level. Visible limits and potential predictability of the actions of the conflicting parties will disappear “