Russia says humanity is in danger if the West wants to punish it on Ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created the most serious crisis in relations between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said efforts by the West to punish a nuclear power like Russia for the war in Ukraine put humanity at risk, as nearly five months of conflict ravaged cities and left thousands homeless. Have become.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February triggered the most serious crisis in relations between Russia and the West since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, when many feared the world was on the verge of nuclear war.
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US President Joe Biden says Russian President Vladimir Putin is a war criminal and has led the West in arming Ukraine and imposing severe sanctions on Russia.
“The idea of punishing the country with the greatest nuclear potential is absurd. And potentially a threat to the very existence of humanity,” Medvedev, now deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, said on Telegram on Wednesday.
According to the Federation of American Scientists, Russia and the United States control about 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons, each with about 4,000 warheads in their military stockpile.
Medvedev casts the United States as an empire that has bled the world by killing Native Americans, citing US nuclear attacks on Japan, and numerous wars from Vietnam to Afghanistan.
Medvedev said attempts to use courts or tribunals to investigate Russia’s actions in Ukraine would be futile and risk global catastrophe. Ukraine and its Western allies say the Russian military is engaged in war crimes.
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Putin launched his offensive, calling it a “special military operation”, to demilitarize Ukraine, what he said was dangerously nationalistic, and to protect Russian-speakers in that country.
Ukraine and its allies say Russia launched an imperialist-style land grab, waging the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II.
After failing to capture the capital Kyiv early, Russia is now waging war for Ukraine’s Donbass region, parts of which are controlled by Russian separatist proxies.
On Sunday, Putin claimed his biggest victory when Ukrainian forces withdrew from Luhansk province. The Russian army launched an offensive to capture the neighboring Donetsk province. Donbass is included in Donetsk and Luhansk.
Russia says it wants to take control of the eastern and heavily industrialized region on behalf of Moscow-backed separatists in the two self-declared people’s republics.
Heavy fire
On Wednesday, the Ukrainian military said it had so far halted any major Russian advance north of Donetsk, but pressure was mounting with heavy shelling in the Slovak city and surrounding populated areas.
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It added that Russian forces were bombarding several Ukrainian cities with heavy weapons to enable ground forces to advance south into the region and close in Sloviansk.
“The enemies are trying to improve their tactical position … (they) advanced … before being repelled by our troops and retreating with losses,” the Ukrainian military said in its evening note.
Other Russian forces, he said, were aiming to seize two cities en route to the city of Kramatorsk, south of Slovak, and also trying to take control of the main highway connecting Luhansk and Donetsk provinces.
“We are stopping the enemy at the (Luhansk/Donetsk) border,” Luhansk governor Serhi Gaidai told Ukraine TV. Later, he said that Luhansk was still not fully occupied by Russian forces and that Russia had suffered “heavy losses”.
“They will continue to try to advance on Sloviask and Bakhmut. There is no doubt about it,” he said.
Sloviask Mayor Vadim Lyakh told a video briefing that the city had been under shelling for the past two weeks.
“The situation is tense,” he said, adding that 17 residents there have been killed since February 24.
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Russia’s defense ministry says it does not target civilians and said on Wednesday it was using high-precision weapons to ward off military threats.
Ukraine has repeatedly urged the West to send more weapons to stop the invasion, which has killed thousands, displaced millions, and leveled cities.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly video message, “Finally, Western artillery has begun to act powerfully, with the weapons we are getting from our allies. And their accuracy is exactly what is needed.” ”
‘No safe zone’
Ukrainian soldiers and a handful of civilians worked in green cars and vans on Wednesday in the Donetsk city of Kramatorsk, which Russian forces are trying to capture in the coming weeks. A lot of population is gone.
“It’s almost deserted. It’s scary,” said 64-year-old retired metal worker Oleksandr. Despite the increase in missile strikes, he said the evacuation was likely to follow official advice.
“I’m not looking for death, but if I do encounter it, it’s better to stay at home,” he said.
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Ukraine’s TV Mayor Ihor Terekhov said Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, outside the Donbass, was “constantly” falling victim to long-range Russian shelling.
“Russia is trying to demoralize Kharkiv, but it will get nowhere,” he said. Ukrainian defenders pushed Russian armored forces well past Kharkiv at the start of the war, and Terekhov said about 1 million residents remained there.
South of Kharkiv, the governor of Dnipropetrovsk said the region was battered by missiles and shelling, while the port of Mykolaiv on the southern coast was also under heavy shelling, its mayor, Alexander Senkevich, told a briefing.
“There are no safe zones in MycoLive,” he said. “I’m telling people… that they need to leave.”
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Russia says humanity is in danger if the West wants to punish it on Ukraine
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