Category: Ukraine
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Italy To Lead Construction of New NATO Base in Bulgaria
Internet news site, bourgas.ru, situated in the Bulgarian Black Sea coast city of Burgas, and catering to speakers of Russian as their native language, on August 13, 2025, reported that in the near future Bulgaria and Italy would begin construction of a new NATO military base in Bulgaria’s Yambol Province. Bulgaria’s Minister of Defense, in…
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Putin Social Media Bulldog Dmitri Medvedev Compares Trump’s Agenda to Soviet Writer Bulgakov’s Satire of Bolshevism, early January 2025
Former Russian President and current deputy chairman of Russia’s National Security Council, Dmitri Medvedev, dedicated his January 9, 2025, Telegram post to a revisionist analysis of Soviet author Mikhail Bulgakov’s anti-Soviet novel, A Dog’s Heart (Собачье Сердце/Sobach’e Serdtse), as related to in-coming U.S. President Donald Trump’s stated goals. In Medvedev’s world, Trump’s agenda represents grandiose…
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Putin’s Social Media Pitbull, Dmitri Medvedev, Offers Selective Review of 2024, Late December 2024
In his December 30, 2024 Telegram post, former President of Russia and current Russian National Security Council Deputy Chairman, Dmitri Medvedev, employing his sarcastically perverted sense of humor, engaged in a ‘year in review’ of events. While at times it is unclear to what he was referring, his selective reminiscences of the past year do…
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Staunch Russia First Proponent, Dmitri Medvedev, Decries West’s Russophobia, Calls for Destruction of Europe, late December 2024
Dmitri Medvedev, in his December 27, 2024, Telegram message suggests that it is in Russia’s best interests to ignore the United States, since the alternative would lead to an all-out nuclear war. On the other hand, Europe should be punished for its anti-Russia position by all means possible, into the mix of which would be…
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Russian Foreign Policy Pugilist, Putin Advocate Medvedev Continues Attempts To Humiliate Ukrainian President Zelensky, late December 2024
Former Russian President and current deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitri Medvedev, continued his harangue directed at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in his December 20, 2024 Telegram post. Medvedev is a Russian nationalist and backer of Putin’s foreign policy, the cornerstone of which, as evidenced by the ‘Special Military Operation’ in Ukraine, is…
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Putin Ally Medvedev Issues Retaliatory Threat After Assassination of Russian General, mid-December, 2024
In a December 18, 2024 Telegram post, former President of Russia and current Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitri Medvedev, reacted to the assassination of General Igor Anatoliyevich Kirillov, Chief of Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces of the Russian Armed Forces. Medvedev’s message contained a threat of retaliation not only against the…
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Putin Ally Dmitri Medvedev Makes Ukraine-Centric Observations From Three Recent Events, Early December 2024
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. Medvedev’s post begins below [translated from…
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Dmitri Medvedev, Former Russian President/Current Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Claims: Ukrainian Defeat Assured Despite Germany Sending Taurus Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine
Following is a November 12, 2024 post by Dmitri Medvedev, former President of Russia and currently Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, to Telegram. In this post, Medvedev is reacting to statements by the Chairman of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Friedrich Merz, vowing, if elected, to supply Ukraine with long-range cruise missiles.…
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Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Questions A Trump Presidency’s Ability To Overcome “The System”
Dmitri Medvedev, former President of Russia and current Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, on November 6, 2024, posted a short, succinct message on Telegram, his communication conduit of choice, briefly commenting on expectations under a Trump presidency regarding the situation in Ukraine as well as relations with allies. The language in which he…
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Putin Portrays SMO as a Spiritual Endeavor in Victory Day Speech, Early May 2024
President of Russia Vladimir Putin, on May 9, 2024, once again used the occasion of the country’s Victory Day celebration as a bully pulpit to denounce the “Western elite” (i.e., the countries of the U.S.-led NATO alliance) for encouraging the former Soviet bloc countries to seek independence, in the wake of which monuments, memorials, and…
The Dragon is Slain 