Ukraine may not even exist in two years’ time – Medvedev

Olena Roshchina — Wednesday, 15 June 2022, 10:59

Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, has questioned the future of Ukraine, on which Russia is waging war.

Source: Dmitry Medvedev on Telegram

Direct quote: "I saw a report that said Ukraine wants to get LNG (liquefied natural gas - ed.) from its overseas masters under lend-lease with payment for delivery in two years. Otherwise it will just freeze to death this winter.

Just a question. Who said that in two years Ukraine will even exist on the world map?

Not that the Americans care - they are so invested in their ‘anti-Russia’ project that everything else is trivial to them."

Why it matters: Dmitry Medvedev has thus admitted that Russia’s goal is the annihilation of Ukraine; that the cause of the war is not the people of Donbas, not the threat from NATO and definitely not imaginary "biolaboratories" and "nuclear developments".

Background: Russia waged a hybrid war against Ukraine for eight years, occupying the Crimean peninsula and part of eastern Ukraine in 2014 before launching a full-scale open invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.

Vladimir Putin and his propaganda-mongers call the war a "special military operation".

The Kremlin was lying when it said that it was not planning a war and did not seek regime change in Ukraine. The Kremlin claimed its objective was the protection or so-called "liberation" of Donbas from the legitimate authorities, when in fact it wants to take over Ukraine completely.

The Russian army’s immediate objective appears to be to gain control over the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine so that occupied Crimea can receive water from the mainland and has a land route to the Russian Federation.