Dmitry Medvedev, the former president of Russia, declared on Sunday that his nation was stepping up the production of modern weaponry to defend itself against adversaries in Europe, the United States, and Australia.
“The most potent weapon of devastation is being produced in greater quantities.
including those built on novel tenets, “Telegram, a message service, quoted Medvedev.
According to Medvedev, “our opponent dug in not only in the Kyiv province of our own Malorossiya,” referring to regions of the present-day Ukraine that were formerly a part of the Russian Empire under the tsars.
“It is in Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and a whole number of other places that pledged allegiance to the Nazi.”
Medvedev, who serves as deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, did not provide details of the weapons.
President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly claimed that Russia is working on new kinds of weaponry, such as hypersonic weapons that, in his words, can get over any missile defence system now in place.
Since Putin dispatched troops to Ukraine on February 24, 57-year-old Medvedev has frequently posted increasingly obscene things on social media.
Moscow’s offensive in pro-Western Ukraine is on the back foot, and the military standoff has sparked worries that Russia may turn to its nuclear arsenal in an effort to break through militarily.
In an apparent allusion to a nuclear attack, Putin stated on Friday that Russia may change its military policy to allow for the prospect of a preemptive strike to disarm an adversary.
Russian cruise missiles and hypersonic systems, according to the head of the Kremlin, are “more modern and even more efficient” than American counterparts.