Putin’s ally warns of an “apocalypse” leading to a global nuclear catastrophe that will last for centuries “until the debris stops emitting radiation” if the West continues to send weapons to Ukraine

Allen Vladimir Putin has warned of an “apocalypse” if the West continues to send weapons to Ukraine to help it fight off invading Russian forces.

Russia’s former president Dmitry Medvedev said the fallout from the potential global nuclear disaster would last for decades “until the debris stops emitting radiation” – echoing his earlier threats of nuclear war with Kiev’s allies.

Medvedev’s apocalyptic rhetoric is seen as an attempt to dissuade the NATO military alliance and Kiev’s Western allies from getting even more involved in the years of war that have left Moscow with numerous battlefield setbacks.

His latest comments follow Putin’s nuclear warning last week and his Sunday speech in which he portrayed Moscow’s confrontation with the West as an existential struggle for the survival of Russia and the Russian people.

Kiev and its NATO allies say the invasion is an imperialist land grab and the only aggressor in the conflict is Russia, which has repeatedly denied planning military action in the months and weeks leading up to February 24, 2022.

Medvedev’s apocalyptic rhetoric is seen as an attempt to dissuade the US-led NATO military alliance and Kiev’s Western allies from getting even more involved in the war years, which have brought numerous battlefield setbacks to Moscow. Pictured: A Russian nuclear-capable Sarmat (Satan) missile being tested

“Of course, the arms pump could continue … and prevent any possibility of a resumption of negotiations,” said Medvedev, deputy chairman of Putin’s powerful Security Council, in a comment published in the daily Izvestia.

Our enemies are doing just that, and don’t want to understand that their goals will surely lead to total fiasco. loss for all. A breakdown. Apocalypse. Where you forget your past life for centuries until the debris no longer emits radiation.’

Putin announced late in his nearly two-hour state of the nation address last week that Russia was suspending its participation in the New Start program with the US, which limits both sides’ strategic nuclear arsenals.

The New Start treaty was signed in Prague in 2010, entered into force the following year and was extended for another five years in 2021, shortly after US President Joe Biden took office.

It limits the number of strategic nuclear warheads that the US and Russia can deploy, as well as the deployment of land- and submarine-launched missiles and bombers.

According to experts, Russia has the world’s largest nuclear arsenal with nearly 6,000 nuclear warheads.

Together, Russia and the US control about 90 percent of the world’s nuclear warheads – enough to destroy the planet many times over.

Russia has often used the looming threat of its nuclear arsenal to get the West to halt arms sales to Ukraine.

On state television, Putin’s propagandists regularly call for the bombing of targets in the West, including the British capital, London.

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And in January, Medvedev appeared to warn NATO leaders against halting shipments of key new weapons to Kiev as Western allies met at Germany’s Ramstein air base to discuss whether Germany should agree to send Leopard 2 main battle tanks.

Losing Russia would trigger a nuclear war, Medvedev, who as Russian president from 2008 to 2012 once had his finger on Russia’s nuclear trigger, said at the time.

He insisted that the fate of his boss Putin and that of Russia depended on the Russian despot not being defeated during the bloody war years.

“It never occurs to any of the wretches to draw the elementary conclusion: that the loss of a nuclear force in a conventional war could provoke a nuclear war.

Nuclear powers have not lost major conflicts on which their fate depends. And that should be clear to everyone.

“Even a Western politician with a touch of intelligence,” said the ex-pres.

Moscow further confirmed that Medvedev’s inflammatory statements were fully consistent with Russian nuclear doctrine.

Medvedev followed in Putin’s footsteps as president for a four-year term in 2008, during which Putin became Russia’s prime minister. The move was seen as largely symbolic as Putin retained ultimate power.

When he first became president in 2008, he promised to modernize and liberalize Russia and often spoke of his love of gadgets and blogs. He even visited California and got a brand new iPhone 4 from Apple founder Steve Jobs.

But he has since rebooted his political persona and now regularly launches tirades on the Telegram messaging app to his followers about Russia’s place in the world and its hatred of the West.

Observers said his new role was a desperate bid to remain relevant in Moscow’s political circles, which have darkened considerably since he left the presidency and Putin regained the top post in the Kremlin.

Meanwhile, rumors circulated about Medvedev’s increasing drinking that Putin told him to step down as prime minister and instead gave him the highly symbolic post of deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council – which Putin, like many other political organizations in Moscow, did. ultimate control over.

Now some analysts see Medvedev positioning himself for a new candidate for the Kremlin presidency if illness or discontent forces Putin’s departure.

Russia has previously said it would only resort to nuclear weapons if it faced an “existential threat”.

In March 2022, a month after the invasion began, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “We have a concept of internal security and it is public. You can read all the reasons for using nuclear weapons. So if it poses an existential threat to our country, it can be deployed under our concept.”

However, concerns have since been raised about Russia’s potential use of such weapons, as the military has continued to suffer embarrassment at the hands of Ukrainian forces.

Warnings have been issued about the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield and about the use of a dirty bomb. There are also fears about the safety of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, which could trigger another Chernobyl disaster if they don’t go ahead – or are damaged in the ongoing fighting.

Meanwhile, the US warned China of dire consequences if it supplies weapons to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as Kiev’s top general visited the frontline town of Bakhmut, where Ukrainian defenders are holding off ongoing attacks.

Air raid sirens sounded in the capital Kiev and other cities, and a Russian missile attack killed one person in the western city of Khmelnitskyi, Mayor Oleksandr Symshyshyn said on the Telegram messaging app.

Washington and its NATO allies are doing everything they can to prevent China from providing military aid to Moscow’s war effort, making public comments about their belief that Beijing is considering providing lethal equipment, possibly drones.

The West fears China will help arm Russia as Moscow’s forces struggle to make a gain on key targets in eastern Ukraine and as Kiev prepares a counteroffensive with advanced Western weapons, including main battle tanks.

In the photo: Polish Leopard 2 tanks are transferred to Ukraine on February 24, 2023 at an undisclosed location. Russia has issued threats to stop Ukraine’s western allies from supplying Kiev with advanced military hardware

“Beijing will have to make its own decisions about how to proceed, whether to provide military assistance, but if it goes down that route, it’s going to cost China very dearly,” White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said. told CNN newspaper.

While China has made no progress in providing that aid, it has not taken the option off the table either, Sullivan said in a separate ABC interview.

Beijing refused to condemn Moscow’s attack on Ukraine, most recently at a Group of Twenty (G20) meeting in India on Saturday.

It released a ceasefire proposal on Friday, the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but it was met with skepticism from Ukraine’s Western allies.