Ukraine war live blog: Russia expels several US diplomats

Deputy Head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedevhas the USA destructive plans to destabilize Russia. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia became the target of a “primitive game” by the Americans, the former president and head of government wrote on Telegram. Russia should be “humiliated, limited, shaken, divided and destroyed” will.

“And now let’s imagine America succeeding in this round of confrontation,” Medvedev continued. “Here is the result: the largest nuclear power with an unstable political leadership, a collapsed economy and a maximum number of nuclear warheads aimed at targets in the US and Europe.”

Next, China would be targeted by the United States
, predicted Medvedev. “And then it’s only a few steps to the worst global catastrophe, to the energy and food collapse, to the failure of all collective security systems and after a short time to the big nuclear bang (…).”

Russian-US relations are at a low ebb because of Russia’s war in Ukraine. The USA – like the EU and other countries – have imposed far-reaching sanctions on Moscow. US President Joe Biden recently called Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” and a “murderous dictator”.

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