Ukraine war: Russia threatens to be able to bring the US back to the ‘right place’

Mr. Dmitry Medvedev, who served as president of Russia from 2008 to 2012 and is currently deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council, accused the US of creating an obsession with Moscow to force the country to fall. .

Russian soldiers in the town of Armyansk on the Crimean peninsula as President Putin announced the opening of a special military operation into Ukraine on February 24. Photo: Reuters

“That won’t work. Russia has enough power to put all of our aggressive enemies in the right place,” Medvedev said on March 17.

Since Moscow opened military offensive in Ukraine On February 24, the United States and its allies in Europe and Asia imposed several rounds of sanctions targeting Russian leaders, companies and businessmen, cutting the country off from parts of the world economy.

According to Reuters, while acknowledging that Western sanctions are hurting the country, Russian officials are certain they will eventually be overcome successfully. Russia also said that its efforts to forge relations with the West in the post-Soviet era are now over and it will develop relations with other powers such as China.

On the same day, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a news conference in Washington that he agreed with President Joe Biden about war crimes committed in Ukraine. According to the official, US experts are gathering evidence to prove it.

Mr. Biden believes that recent incidents of Russia bombing hospitals, schools and a theaterwhere civilians are sheltering is part of a “long list of attacks targeting civilian, non-military sites across Ukraine”.

Biden added that the new US Ambassador for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack, who was confirmed by the Senate on March 15, will lead the efforts of the US State Department to “establish profile and assessment of possible war crimes in Ukraine”.

The Kremlin called the statements of the head of the US State Department “unacceptable and unforgivable statements”. Moscow insists that Russian forces are conducting a “special military operation” to disarm and “de-fascistize” the neighboring country. Moscow also denied that its raids targeted civilians Ukraine.

Tuan Anh