Russia has no intention of resorting to the “worst case scenario” – a nuclear attack – but the West should not test its patience, the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, warned on Thursday, as quoted by Reuters.

• “We will do everything to prevent the development of events towards the worst scenario, but not at the cost of violating our vital interests.
• I do not recommend that anyone doubt our resolve and test our patience.
• They (no – the United States) continue to deliberately violate our fundamental interests, deliberately generate risks and raise the stakes in the confrontation with Russia,” the spokeswoman of the ministry headed by Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference.

Medvedev wants a “peaceful partition” of Ukraine with Romania, Hungary and Poland to avoid another world war

Maria Zakharova’s warning is part of a long series of threats from Moscow regarding the risk of using nuclear weapons, with Vladimir Putin himself warning that “Western military support for Ukraine increases the risk of a catastrophic nuclear conflict.”

Russia has criticized both the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine and the expansion of NATO.

• “This is a new aggravation of the situation. NATO expansion is a serious attack on our security and our national interests. This forces us to take countermeasures,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmytro Peskov in early April after Finland joined the North Atlantic Alliance.

On Tuesday, one of the loudest people in Moscow, the vice president of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, said that another world war is likely, but not inevitable. He declared that a “peaceful division” of Ukraine is “better” than a world war and referred in this context to the “aspirations” of Poland, Hungary and Romania.

• “The world is sick and, quite possibly, is on the verge of a new world war. Is it inevitable? No, no,” said Medvedev, speaking to the participants of the “Nauka” marathon.

According to Medvedev, Russia was “drawn into the war, the clash of two parts of the same people.”

In his opinion, the prospect of nuclear war not only exists, but is growing.

In this context, he qualified as treason the discussion about the environmental agenda, in conditions where the problem of the survival of humanity is raised:

• “Stop suffering because the temperature has risen by one degree in a year or period. (…) In my opinion, this is nothing compared to the prospect of being in the epicenter of an explosion with a temperature of 5000 Kelvin, a speed of 350 meters per second and a pressure of 3000 kg per square meter, with ionizing radiation and an electromagnetic pulse. Is there such a prospect today? Unfortunately yes. And it’s growing every day for obvious reasons.”

“And Romania dreamed for several decades”

The former president of Russia said that Russia can use nuclear weapons first if aggression against it threatens the existence of the Russian state.

He stated that the “quiet division” of Ukraine is better than its membership in NATO or a world war.

• “Greed and malice, hatred, ambition are stronger than reason and common sense. Let Poland take the western regions of Ukraine, but to be honest, Hungary and Romania have been dreaming for decades,” said Medvedev.

According to Medvedev, the leaders of Poland are discussing the creation of a confederation with the Ukrainian authorities, “and from here it is not far even to the union, as it was before.”

According to Medvedev, Poland and other countries want to implement their plans as soon as possible “before the window of opportunity closes”, and Russia and representatives of the collective West have not reached fundamental agreements.

At the same time, Medvedev said that all European politicians depend on the US, “even the quietest, most loyal ones, with whom we (Russia) have normal relations.”

This is not the first time Dmitry Medvedev has made controversial statements and called for the threat of nuclear war.

His statements were made shortly after the head of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, declared that Ukraine’s place is in the North Atlantic military alliance.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says it is time for NATO to make a political decision to invite Ukraine to join the military alliance, and that Kyiv wants to know when it will become a member. The Ukrainian leader also said July’s NATO summit in Vilnius could be “historic”, suggesting it would be the time when he hoped Ukraine would be formally invited to join the alliance.