Russian state media reported on Monday that former Prime Minister and President Dmitry Medvedev visited troops in the Orenburg region, publishing several photos of him in military uniform. But one thing caught my attention.

The Orenburg region is located more than 1,400 kilometers southeast of Moscow, on the border with Kazakhstan and far from the hostilities in Ukraine.

The official page of Kremlin-accredited journalists, The Kremlin Pool, posted on Twitter several photos from the visit of Medvedev, who is currently the deputy chairman of the Russian Defense Council. In one of the propaganda photos, a Russian official is looking through half-closed binoculars, which netizens immediately noticed.

“Judging by this photo, Dmytro Medvedev saw… well, not very much,” he joked on his page on Twitter and BBC journalist Francis Scarr, who monitors the coverage of the Russian press and television.

Dmitry Medvedev, one of the most aggressive leaders of Russia

Medvedev, once considered the hope of Russia’s liberals, has been known for his numerous bellicose statements about Ukraine and the West since the start of the “special military operation” on February 24.

Just two days after the invasion began, he said that Russia did not need diplomatic relations with Western countries and that Moscow should close its embassies.

In June, the former president and prime minister of Russia said on his Telegram channel that he “hates” Ukrainians and Westerners.

“I am often asked why my Telegram posts are so harsh. The answer is: I hate them. They are abominations and abominations. They want death for us, Russia. And while I’m alive, I will do everything to make them disappear,” Medvedev wrote.

Medvedev, threats of the “Terrible Court”

A month later, he told the RIA Novosti agency that in the event of an attack on Crimea, Ukraine would face “a very quick and difficult doomsday.”

“The consequences are obvious, if something like this happens, it will be an instant Doomsday for them all. Very fast and hard. It will be very difficult to hide,” he said on July 17.

On July 27, it was he who published the infamous map on which Ukraine was divided between several neighboring states, including Romania.

At the beginning of August, he stated on his VKontakte page that Georgia and Kazakhstan are “artificial states” and that “all peoples who once inhabited the great and powerful USSR will live together in friendship again.”

He later claimed the post was made by someone else after his VKontakte account, Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, was hacked.

He recently said on Monday that the war in Ukraine is an attempt by the United States to destroy Russia, even though it was Moscow that launched the invasion.

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