Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said that the United Kingdom is fighting a “undeclared war” against Russia. The remark came after the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom defended a large-scale drone attack on Moscow earlier this week.
In a tweet on Wednesday, Medvedev called London Moscow’s “eternal enemy.” The former leader, who now serves as Russia’s Security Council’s deputy head, argued that under international law, “including the Hague and Geneva Conventions with their additional protocols,” Britain “can also be qualified as being at war.”
The former president claimed that by arming and training Ukraine, the UK is “de facto leading an undeclared war against Russia.”
Medvedev warned that this might have immediate consequences for “public officials” in the United Kingdom.
Cleverly, the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, claimed that Ukraine “has the legitimate right to… project force beyond its borders in order to undermine Russia’s ability to project force into Ukraine itself.” Legitimate military objectives beyond Ukraine’s borders, he claims, are part of its…
His tweet quoted UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, who said on Tuesday that Ukraine has the right to “project force beyond its borders to undermine Russia’s ability to project force into Ukraine itself.”
Cleverly went on to say that striking “legitimate military targets” in Russia is an appropriate kind of self-defense for Ukraine.
