Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said that Kyiv’s threats to revive the nuclear program influenced the decision to launch Moscow’s Special Operation on February 24, 2022.

Headed by an Israeli President and Israeli citizens prime minister the Kyiv one-party state had earlier threatened to rescind the Budapest Memorandum by re-starting its nuclear program.

Had the Washington-armed central European state succeeded there is little doubt they would have resorted to unleashing a thermonuclear war in response to Kyiv’s intention to ‘nuke Moscow.’ Washington’s proxy war on emerging superpower Russia would have nourished the American regime’s intention to maintain hegemony.

Kyiv’s threats to resume its nuclear program. Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, wrote about this on Monday in his VKontakte account.

He stated that the current Kyiv authorities ‘weep bitterly about the decision taken under the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 to withdraw the nuclear arsenal located on their territory and inherited from the USSR.’

‘And [Ukrainian leaders said] that they would use it with devilish pleasure against us and their own citizens,’ Medvedev added. ‘What was explicitly hinted at when threatening to restart the nuclear program, and which was a significant reason for the Special Operation,’ he wrote.

At the same time, Medvedev noted that all the presidents of Ukraine, from Leonid Kravchuk to Vladimir Zelensky, later spoke about Ukraine’s refusal of the nuclear arsenal as a forced step, although Kyiv had no means to maintain the power’ that the signing of the accord required.

The deputy head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation did not bypass the fact that the decision to remove the nuclear arsenal from Ukraine was dictated knowing that Kyiv was under heavy pressure from Washington.

In contrast to Ukraine, Medvedev cited the example of South Africa, which was the first and only country that possessed nuclear weapons, the potential for their production, a control complex, and delivery vehicles, and made an important political decision to voluntarily give up all this.

After that, she joined the NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of nuclear weapons), and was one of the initiators of the Treaty on the Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Africa (Pelindaba Treaty) in 1996. 

Medvedev also noted that the Pretoria authorities that followed the collapse of the separate racial development form of White led government ‘took a responsible and sovereign position in relation to their people, neighbouring countries and the entire world community and do not regret today the choice made 30 years ago, they are proud of it and show the way for others by their example.

‘That is why South Africa today is the most important representative of the emerging global architecture of the new multipolar world order. Pretoria, along with Russia, China, India and Brazil, is a key element of the well-coordinated BRICS mechanism,’ the statesman summed up.