In his December 1, 2024 Telegram post, former President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev, who now serves as the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, addressed “three events at the very beginning of winter” that had caught his attention, which, from his perspective, related to the situation in Ukraine.

• From an article in the British newspaper, The Times reporting that Zelensky has a mere 16% support of Ukrainians, Medvedev infers that in order to prevent new elections, the Ukrainian president will continue the war “to the last Ukrainian.”
• Medvedev concludes that leading EU officials are more concerned with Ukraine than they are with solving various problems in their own backyard.
• The unrest in Georgia is leading the country down the “Ukrainian path to a dark abyss” in search of “another color revolution.” Medvedev faults the president of Georgia for not having recognized the results of the recent election.

Medvedev’s post begins below [translated from Russian by LOC]:

1. Well, well, the British have finally admitted: Zeli’s [One of Medvedev’s nicknames for Ukrainian President Zelensky] popularity has fallen sharply and the majority of Ukrainians want his departure. That’s what The Times wrote. Only 16% of Ukrainians would vote for him in the elections, while 60% of those polled don’t want him to run again at all. That means, the regime will continue to insist on total war up to the last Ukrainian and to delay elections as long as possible. For this is the single means to save the power of the illegitimate drug addict. So, the Trump Administration will not have easy negotiations on this subject with the treasonous Nazi regime. [Translator comment: I have added the adjective ‘treasonous’ to ‘Nazi’ to describe Medvedev’s use of the term ‘Bandera’ since that more exactly carries the connotation behind the word ‘Bandera,’ whom the Soviets considered to have committed treason by fighting alongside the Germans against them in WWII. Secondly, Medvedev’s referring probably to Zelensky as the “High Treason of Ukraine” seems to fit this context. (For the use of this phrase by Medvedev, cf. my post Former Russian President, Now Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman, Dmitri Medvedev, Faults Current U.S. President for Deaths Resulting from Ukraine’s Use of ATACMS To Launch Attacks “Deep into the Territory of Russia,” Late November 2024)] Stopping the war, for Zelensky, is similar to death. This is the end of their bloody power.

2. The new head of the European Council, Antonio Costa, and, Kaja Kallas, the Estonian Russophobe who earlier together with her husband raised money in Russia and now is “the chief diplomat” of the EU, on her first day of work, arrived in Kiev. This means one thing: for them the main thing is far from being the prosperity of the countries of the EU, not the development of the economy, and not the solving of social tasks. The main thing is the continuation of the war to the last Ukrainian. Rejoice, Europeans: good choice, the right defenders of democracy! [Translator note: According to X.com Kaja Kallas (@kajakallas) / X is EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the European Commission.]

3. In Georgia, the attempt of another “color (“rose,” “orange,” etc.) revolution.” [Translator comment: “rose” refers to the mass turn out of Georgians in 2003, demonstrating in favor of democratic rule; “orange” refers to a similar large-scale protest in Ukraine in 2004.] Some of the people on the street yell, tear down and burn everything around. Others are silent. The “presidentess” of Georgia, whose term in office has expired, the diligent French-[born] student of Zbigniew Brzezinski, the crazy aunt Salome bleated that she would not free the chair, because she does not recognize the elections. Earlier, [people] would be hanged from light poles for such a thing. Now, the times are [more] humane. It will pass. In general, it’s obvious, all the requirements for once again lowering Georgia into the abyss of a civilian collision, having forced [it] to choose between the insolent EU, NATO and the United States, on the one hand, and the ancient land of Sakartvelo – on the other. [Translator comment: In the previous sentence, I have substituted ‘the United States’ for the pejorative term Medvedev is fond of using as a derogatory slang word showing disdain and hatred for both the United States and its citizens. There are various theories about its evolution; suffice it to say that in the culture of political correctness, one word from which it may have been derived is a term altogether politically incorrect, bordering on hate speech. Sakartvelo is the name in Georgian for the South Caucasus country of Georgia. Medvedev, as a biased observer, may very well be insinuating that her being French-born has prejudiced Georgia’s president in the direction of the West and its corrupt societal value system as opposed to the pure Eastern Orthodoxy of ancient Georgia.] In short, neighbors are quickly moving on the Ukrainian path to a dark abyss. Usually, this ends very poorly.