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Russia’s former president says Ukraine might not ‘even exist on the world map’ in 2 years in latest genocidal message

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and then-Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attend a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017.

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  • Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president, says Ukraine might not exist in two years. 
  • Medvedev, a Putin ally, is gaining a lot of attention over his bombastic Telegram posts.
  • Russia has been accused by Biden, among others, of committing genocide in Ukraine.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made another bombastic statement on Telegram on Wednesday, suggesting that Ukraine might not exist in two years amid Russia’s military offensive in the country.

Medvedev was posting about Ukraine seeking liquefied natural gas from the US under a lend-lease plan that would see it pay Washington back in two years. The former Russian leader — a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin — apparently is not a fan of this proposal, which comes as Europe vies to end its reliance on Russian energy in response to the invasion of Ukraine.  

“Saw a report that Ukraine wants to get LNG from its overseas masters under Lend-Lease with payment for delivery in 2 years’ time. Otherwise it will simply freeze to death this coming winter. There’s a question though. Who’s to say that Ukraine will exist on the world map in two years at all? Although the Americans don’t care anymore — they are so invested in the ‘anti-Russia’ project that everything else is nothing to them,” Medvedev said.

Suggesting a country should be wiped off the map is inherently genocidal. The UN defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” 

Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an apparent response to the former Russian president via Twitter said that if Russian “imperialism had a face it would be #Medvedev.” 

“A small man with huge insecurities, who sprinkles poison towards Ukraine or threatens the world as the only way to assert oneself. Ukraine was, is and will be. The question is where would Dmitry Medvedev be in two years,” Podolyak added. 

Medvedev, the deputy chairman of the Russia’s Security Council, has taken an increasingly bellicose tone in his Telegram posts amid the Russian onslaught in Ukraine. 

In another recent post, Medvedev called Russia’s enemies “bastards and scum,” vowing to make them “disappear.” 

“Dmitry Medvedev is, it seems, trying to demonstrate his relevance — and loyalty — in a system that has become markedly more hawkish and less tolerant of shades of grey,” Ben Noble, associate professor of Russian Politics at University College London, recently told The Moscow Times.

Putin has provided a shifting, baseless array of justifications for Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, including preventing genocide against ethnic Russians. Meanwhile, the Russian president and his allies, including Medvedev, have repeatedly suggested that Ukraine shouldn’t exist or is not a legitimate country. Experts have interpreted their rhetoric as an incitement to genocide. 

“Deep Ukrainianism, fueled by anti-Russian poison and an all-consuming lie about its identity, is one big fake,” Medvedev said in a Telegram post in April. “This phenomenon has never happened in history. And now it doesn’t exist,” he went on to say. 

Ruth Deyermond, a Russia expert in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, told the Washington Post that Medvedev’s language is “extremely disturbing language and clearly has genocidal overtones.”

President Joe Biden has explicitly accused Russia of committing genocide in Ukraine, where Russian forces have ruthlessly targeted civilians. Russia is facing widespread allegations of war crimes in Ukraine. 


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