Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev raised the spectrum of World War II on Tuesday, since the rhetoric between the White House and the Kremlin increased on the war in Ukraine.
Medvedev, now a senior security official, was responding to President Donald Trump’s position on Truth Social rebuking his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin while Moscow continued raining to his neighbor.
“What Vladimir Putin does not realize is that if it weren’t for me, many really bad things would have already passed to Russia, and I mean really bad,” Trump, who seems to be losing patience due to the lack of a high fire agreement, wrote: “He is playing with fire!”
About three hours later, Medvedev took X, writing: “I only know of one really bad thing: World War II. I hope Trump understands this!”
This in turn attracted an almost immediate rebuke of Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine, the retired Lieutenant Keith Kellogg, who described the comments of Medvedev “in a publication about X. Warning that Russia was fanning the fears of another World War, Kellog wrote that it was” to synthesize of a world power. “
Trump, he added, has been working to negotiate a truce in the war that entered his fourth year in February and has claimed tens of thousands of lives on both sides.
Although Putin has never raised the spectrum of the World War, he has approached the use of nuclear weapons several times since he launched his invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
In a speech in the Red Square of Moscow last May, the Russian leader promised to stand firm against the attempts of the Western allies of Ukraine to contain Russia. “We will not let anyone threaten us,” he said. “Our strategic forces are always in preparation of combat,” he added referring to the Arsenal of Nuclear Weapons in Russia, the largest in the world.
Trump, who promised multiple occasions to finish the war within 24 hours after assuming the position, has found the reality very different since his second term began, while offering mixed messages about Putin.
Trump has praised Putin as a strong leader with whom he can do business and the couple exchanged a friendly phone call, although fruitless, last week. Shortly after, he announced that Russia and Ukraine “would immediately begin the negotiations towards a high fire.”
But as Putin stagnated in the peace conversations, Trump’s frustration seems to have grown up with the Russian leader, whom he called “crazy” in a publication about Truth Social Sunday after Moscow launched generalized attacks on Ukraine. The Kremlin ruled out his comments as “emotional overload.”
Russia said previously that he was working on a memorandum of understanding that describes Moscow’s demands as part of the negotiations with kyiv. But on Tuesday, Kellogg said that the United States was still waiting “receipt of Ru Memorandum (terms sheet) that promised a week ago.”
Previously, the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Maria Zakharova, said in a statement that the Kremlin continued to write that memorandum and include a schedule for a peace agreement and possible scenarios of Alto El Fuego.
He added that this would be sent to Ukraine, which previously rejected the Russian demands that it never joined NATO, accepts permanent “neutrality” between Moscow and the West and gives its demand from four territories in the east of the country that Russia illegally annexed months after the war began.
Within Ukraine, Russian forces continue their slow routine on the battlefield. Ukrainian officials said a person was killed and more than two dozen injured by ballistic missile attacks throughout the country during the night.
In other places, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, will meet with German news chancellor Friedrich Merz, said his office in a statement on Wednesday.
The two leaders are expected to discuss kyiv’s preparation to respond to Russian attacks and threats, including the increase in drone and missile production, Zelenskyy said in their night speech on Wednesday.
It occurs after Merz said on Tuesday that his government would lift all the restrictions of rank in the weapons he sends to Ukraine, which allows kyiv to defend himself by attacking military positions deeply in Russia.
Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, described Merz’s decision as “extremely dangerous”, adding: “All this will greatly go against peace efforts, against the peace process that is beginning and is still in a very fragile state.”
