Medvedev threatened Lithuania with being wiped off the map
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Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, stated that Russia would be forced to respond if Lithuania allowed nuclear weapons to be deployed on its territory. According to him, in the event of a military conflict, Lithuania could “disappear from the world map.”
Medvedev made this statement during a visit to the Northwestern Federal District of the Russian Federation, according to RIA Novosti.
Medvedev called Lithuania’s plans to change its non-nuclear status futile.
“Those fools don’t understand that if, God forbid, something like that happens and we have to respond to their actions—particularly in Lithuania itself—no one will stand up for them,”
Dmitry MedvedevDeputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council
Medvedev also stated that NATO would allegedly not invoke Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which provides for collective defense. He explained this by citing the risk of a “global, planetary catastrophe.”
Even if the whole place is reduced to a scorched-earth landscape, no other countries will go to war for them. And as for the well-known Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty—it won’t be invoked; everyone acknowledges that. Because if it were invoked, it would lead to a global, planetary catastrophe. They’re not stupid. But Lithuania will disappear from the world map
Dmitry MedvedevDeputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council
As a reminder, on September 9, the Lithuanian Seimas Committee on Legal Affairs and Law Enforcement supported an initiative to remove from Article 137 of the Constitution the provision prohibiting the deployment of nuclear weapons and military bases of foreign states. The Lithuanian parliament plans to consider this issue in early 2027.
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Yulia Shepilova news feed editor
All materialsShe studied at the Department of Social and Cultural Journalism at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture. She worked at the newspaper "Zorya" and the online publication "KamPress."