"The enemy will have to pray for our soldiers because they do not allow a nuclear war to break out"

  Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council and former president, has spoken out about Ukraine's possible plan to take over the Crimean peninsula. Some Western media judged his statements as a threat from Russia, whose army is ready to use “any weapon” if Kiev tries to recover the territory annexed in 2014, according to Dmitry Medvedev on March 24. On his Telegram channel on Sunday, Medvedev congratulated the last day of July, which marks Navy Day in Russia: "The Russian armed forces, repelling the counterattack of the enemy (Ukraine), protect the citizens of Russia and our territory and prevent global conflicts. "If we assume that the attack on Ukraine with the support of NATO is successful and they occupy part of our territory, we will be ready to use nuclear weapons according to the decree of the President of Russia in 2022 , There are no more. “Our enemies will have to pray for our warriors, because they will not allow nuclear war to ignite the world,” he wrote. The American newspaper Daily Express interpreted the statement of the vice president of the Russian Security Council as a threat of global nuclear war in the event of an attempt to split part of the Russian state.

As Russian forces in Ukraine are withdrawing, Medvedev issued a dire nuclear warning to NATO, he claimed. Medvedev's reference to the "land of Russia" is likely a reference to the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed to Russia in 2014 in an unrecognized referendum, the Daily Express believes. The Ukrainian army announced on Saturday July 29 that it had attacked Russian “military infrastructure” in the annexed peninsula of Crimea, causing in the morning in particular the explosion of an ammunition depot according to the pro-Russian authorities. For Russia, the Crimean Peninsula is an integral part of its territory. "An attempt to split part of the Russian state would amount to encroaching on the existence of the state itself," reported the Russian agency close to the Kremlin Tass last March. Road and rail traffic on the bridge that spans the Kerch Strait linking Russia to the Crimean peninsula attached to Moscow was temporarily blocked after the Ukrainian attack which caused the explosion of an ammunition depot. Road traffic finally resumed in the morning and then rail traffic a few hours later in the afternoon, local pro-Russian authorities said. Major General Krylo Budanov, head of the Ukrainian army's intelligence department, claimed on Ukrainian television that "Ukrainian forces will soon enter Crimea, which is temporarily occupied by Russian forces."