The head of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, published a post in which he called Kazakhstan and Georgia “artificial states”, reports Nexta.

The former president of Russia also says that “all nations that once inhabited the great and powerful USSR will once again live together in friendship.”

Medvedev later came back with clarifications and said that he had become the target of a cyberattack and that his account on the social platform VK had been hacked.

The post was published on his VK social network account, which has 2.3 million subscribers, The Moscow Times reports with reference to Interfax.

Medvedev said that after the occupation of the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, Russia will seek to expand its borders to other territories.

He argued that “Georgia never existed before its reunification” with the Russian Empire in the 19th century and that Kazakhstan in Central Asia was an “artificial state”.

Screenshots of the post showed it was viewed 2,000 times before it was removed about 10 minutes after it was posted.

The post did not appear on Medvedev’s channel in the Telegram messenger, where the current deputy head of the Russian Security Council regularly publishes anti-Western tirades to his 670,000 subscribers.

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