Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has accused the West of “playing chess with death” over its support for Ukraine, saying Western countries are trying to use the conflict to push Russia into “a new round of disintegration,” The Guardian reported.

In a post on Vkontakte, Russia’s largest social network, Medvedev, who is now the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, accused Western countries of trying to use the conflict to push Russia into a “new round of disintegration.”

“Do everything so that the state institutions of Russia stop working,” he said. “To deprive the country of effective governance, as it was in 1991. And, accordingly, withdraw Russia from the political sphere.”

He added that “such attempts are indeed extremely dangerous” because they “ignore a simple axiom: the violent collapse of a nuclear state is always a game of chess with death.”

He also called Russia’s nuclear arsenal “the best guarantee of the preservation of Great Russia.”

In his publication, Medvedev refers to the time before the official collapse of the USSR in 1992, the very day that the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, whom Russians blame for the collapse of the Soviet Union because of his reforms, was buried.

In fact, Vladimir Putin called the collapse of the Soviet Union a “geopolitical catastrophe.”

At the end of August, Dmytro Medvedev estimated that by the end of the current year the price of gas will reach EUR 5,000 per thousand cubic meters of gas.

“Due to the fact that the price of gas has increased and reached 3,500 euros per thousand cubic meters, I am forced to revise upwards the expected cost, which will reach 5,000 euros by the end of 2022,” Medvedev wrote in his Telegram channel and, Addressing the heads of European states, he ended the post by writing “Bitter greetings.”

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