Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian President and current Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council, has made headlines with his controversial remarks and a presentation that underscores Russia's expansive territorial ambitions in Ukraine. In a series of public statements, Medvedev asserted that "Ukraine is definitely Russia," a stance that aligns with the Kremlin's long-standing imperial narratives, including the assertion that "Russia's borders doesn't end anywhere." Wearing a Kim Jong-Un-style tunic, he showcased a map, suggesting a significant reduction of Ukraine's territory, with much of it divided between Russia, Poland, Romania, and Hungary, leaving only the area around Kyiv as Ukrainian. Medvedev's comments have sparked outrage and concern, highlighting the Kremlin's disregard for Ukrainian sovereignty and the broader implications for regional stability. His rhetoric also dismisses the possibility of peace talks with the current Ukrainian leadership, emphasizing Russia's intent to continue its 'special military operation' until Ukraine capitulates. These developments have alarmed international observers and underscore the deepening crisis in Ukraine.
Cut a deal with Putin? "Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev delivered a sweeping speech Monday claiming 'Ukraine is definitely Russia' and spouting anti-Ukraine rhetoric aimed at erasing the country from the map." https://t.co/6XFPzGVpKx
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev unveiled a map proposing the partition of much of Ukraine among its neighbors during a speech on... Read more: https://t.co/kaUw8rYdAE ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️
‘Ukraine is Definitely Russia’ – Medvedev Unveils Map Showing Ukraine Shrunk to Kiev and Its Suburbs https://t.co/j6Gyz5L2Gt https://t.co/Rm3XyqRPeO
◾️ The map of divided Ukraine (see picture) is the Kremlin's real plan: destruction of Ukraine and annexation of the main part to Russia (through occupation and collaborationism); ◾️ Russia is even ready to "share" Ukraine's territories with Central European countries; ◾️… https://t.co/iSRKGUEcWX https://t.co/VuEKPWzcDR
'Ukraine is Definitely Russia' – Medvedev Unveils Map Showing Ukraine Shrunk to Kiev and Its Suburbs. Read more: https://t.co/v1iBQEu576 Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev unveiled a map proposing the partition of much of Ukrain...
Medvedev indicated that Russia is more interested in subjugating Ukraine’s people than taking its territory. (1/4) https://t.co/qRkZfc34X9 https://t.co/B5nxBEMBKi
Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev delivered a sweeping speech Monday claiming “Ukraine is definitely Russia” and spouting anti-Ukraine rhetoric aimed at erasing the country from the map. https://t.co/iqmk4EovJ4
Look at Medvedev's map and then explain to me how disarming Ukraine will lead to peace? To me, it's just the opposite. Fewer weapons for Ukraine means more killing of Ukrainians while Putin tries to conquer these Ukrainian lands. https://t.co/aiKu3z2wqG
Look at this map rolled out by @MedvedevRussiaE & then explain to me how @ZelenskyyUa is supposed to negotiate with Putin now. https://t.co/bOvUcadWJx
Dmitry Medvedev repeated Putin's statement that Russia's borders don't end anywhere and claimed that Ukraine is Russia. The audience cheerfully applauded. https://t.co/qxoHiEypsy
When I saw this in my feed, several times today, I was 100% sure that this is a photoshop, a parody. The @MedvedevRussiaE's presentation with a fantasy map of Ukraine was indeed tailor-made for parodies. Yet this is NOT fake, this is a real snapshot from today's presentation... https://t.co/BVvThd4uyu
NEW: Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev promoted Russia's extensive territorial objectives that expand deep into Ukraine’s territory. 🧵(1/4) https://t.co/Kk3VKKR3dP
What do you think of Medvedev’s new map of Ukraine? https://t.co/JSxVEt35Ol
‘Ukraine is Russia’ – Medvedev There is no future for the country outside of the sphere of Russian strategic interests, the senior official has said https://t.co/QlO6AulVj5 https://t.co/w2dE2Z1Phi
Russian opening bid in negotiations for peace in Ukraine : Ukraine must disappear for good https://t.co/KExyyX71XX
In case you still think that depriving Ukraine of weapons will lead to "peace" please read this: Russia still plans to conquer all of Ukraine. Russian occupation still means mass arrests, murder and kidnapped children. https://t.co/wZwP5XwxyG
Putin's western cheerleaders will uncritically accept literally any Kremlin talking point... except when it patiently explains its imperialist goals and motivations. He drew these morons a literal picture and they're still going to warble about NATO, Nazis and language rights. https://t.co/6MCyYJMuwR
Once again, Russian leaders explicitly say what their country's intent is in Ukraine: Imperial conquest and genocide. There is no easy out of this. There is no magical peace deal or land swap that can reverse the decades of momentum behind Russia's insane hunger for empire.… https://t.co/ZCYlA5LWnA
🇷🇺🇺🇦 RUSSIA CONSIDERS UKRAINE THEIRS Putin at the outset of the war in Ukraine: “Our plans do not include the occupation of Ukrainian territories. We are not going to impose anything on anyone. The appearance of Russian troops near Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine is not… https://t.co/BTXqJAHVsy
„#Ukraine is #Russia, negotiations with Kiev are impossible.“ We should believe them when say it out loud. https://t.co/uUl14rhpcD
Former Russian President Medvedev could not be more clear. #Russia's goal is the end of modern #Ukraine. https://t.co/QZd8GALVtS
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev says parts of Ukraine should ‘return home’ as he rules out peace talks with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy https://t.co/UcAqcm1Yyj https://t.co/qdJnpaDiYm
Tucker Carlson and other Russian propagandists: Russia invaded Ukraine because of “NATO expansion.” Russia’s former President Dmitry Medvedev: there’s no such thing as Ukraine. It's just part of Russia https://t.co/6Kp2iv0owN
Russia will not stop its war until Ukraine surrenders, Kremlin security official Dmitry Medvedev said in the speech, adding that peace talks with Kyiv were off the table. https://t.co/5MK8Xq1OZQ
They keep saying it aloud and yet some in the West keep pretending not to hear. Putin does not seek to take part of Ukraine or stop NATO expansion. He seeks to exterminate Ukraine. Medvedev could not be more clear here. https://t.co/tPG8LhUt80
#Russia is not even hiding intent of territorial conquest and genocide in #Ukraine: Russia's former PM and president Medvedev @MedvedevRussiaE publicly states "Ukraine certainly is Russia": https://t.co/HT8GSPEKC9 https://t.co/49PGNA1Nuk
#Russia is not hiding intent of territorial conquest and genocide in #Ukraine: former PM and president Medvedev @MedvedevRussiaE says 'Ukraine certainly is Russia': https://t.co/HT8GSPEKC9
The territories on both banks of the Dnieper are an integral part of Russian historical strategic borders, said Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev. He also believes it is important to understand where and how the borders of Russia are delineated in our time… https://t.co/GvtpiEwoFL
#DmitryMedvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council and an ally of President #VladimirPutin, says that Ukraine was part of Russia and ruled out peace talks with the current Ukrainian leadership. https://t.co/HpnuI1AjGR
Putin ally says '#Ukraine is Russia' and historical territory needs to 'come home'. #RussiaUkraine War. https://t.co/IjpY66hwT9
"There is no doubt that Ukraine is part of Russia!" — Medvedev https://t.co/pTEFWZWWQf
Russia once again confirms. It was never about NATO. It was about "Ukraine being Russia". https://t.co/opOIfkrcf9
It’s striking to me not just that Medvedev and presumably others in Moscow embrace much wider territorial aims in Ukraine than Russia has managed so far, but they are planning on Kyiv’s current allies to carve up the country, too. https://t.co/Tnx1TIxLIn
At a youth festival in Sochi, Russian Security Council Chairman (and former President) Dmitry Medvedev presented a map that showed the majority of Ukraine’s territory divided between Russia, Poland, Romania, and Hungary. “Ukraine is definitely Russia,” he said.…
"Russian borders end nowhere" - Medvedev called these words of Putin "very good" ones. What will they call "historical Russian lands" next? https://t.co/SC6aIO4PYB https://t.co/cm92zFx0rh
Meme map If Ukraine lost all that territory on the right side Russia would also annex Kiev. Ukraine would be oblasts like Lviv, Ternopil, Volyn, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, (Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi and Zhytomyr likely, Chernivtsi and Zakarpattia unclear). https://t.co/cgNRoWGjTV
Medvedev stood in front of an updated map of Ukraine to say that both sides of the Dnieper are an integral part of Russia’s historical strategic borders https://t.co/8XKay8fJIs
"Ukraine is part of Russia, despite statements by Ukrainian politicians, so Moscow is going to establish control over its entire territory"- Medvedev What a sociopath war criminal & if other countries think this does not apply to them, they are very wrong https://t.co/Xz55u80a1v
Medvedev shows his plans for Ukraine. He wants the land partitioned between Poland, Russia, Romania and Hungary. Only Kiev would be Ukrainian. https://t.co/yDunMzLQq1
Russia’s former President Dmitry Medvedev says that Ukraine’s first president, Leonid Kravchuk, is wrong… “Ukraine is Russia,” -Medvedev says. It’s clear that the Russians don’t want just the 5 regions, they want all of Ukraine and they just be stopped https://t.co/qdgcuhbpNM
On Russian TV, @MedvedevRussiaE, a former prime minister in 2012-2020, nominal president in 2008-12, and now a deputy chairman of the Security Council, shows what Ukraine is in Putin’s feverish dreams. A promise of years of genocidal war - seriously? Or are they really crazy? https://t.co/3f2PTZcCzo
⚡ 🇷🇺🇺🇦 The map of Ukraine, which Russia plans after the war, published by Medvedev himself. https://t.co/1Va6c8dz1F https://t.co/b6KwHG0nF8
Russia: "Ukraine is ours and we are going to take it, cleanse it, Russify it and expand our empire." Western useful idiots: "Yeah, it's a defensive war triggered by NATO expansion and pigeons and deep state and........" https://t.co/ELDPyGF38k
In #Russia, the Alcoholic-in-Chief (formerly PM and President) @MedvedevRussiaE said today: "Ukraine is, of course, Russia." The Kremlin is attempting to deny #Ukraine its independence and sovereignty. 1/2 https://t.co/IxjMxvVQK8
“Ukraine is undoubtedly Russia.” Medvedev, an irrelevance, articulates what Russia’s leadership believes. All the euphemisms about “indivisible security” cast aside. The question for NATO in the long run is: what other parts of Europe are also “undoubtedly Russia”? https://t.co/2R1aSCgsk8
This is the main Russia's goal in this war: the destruction of Ukraine as an independent state. All talk about compromises, territorial and other concessions on behalf of Ukraine is pointless because it won't solve the underlying problem: Russia doesn't want Ukraine to exist https://t.co/A9xgKYEanu
So if Medvedev got his way carving up Ukraine, Nato territory would continue to expand eastwards? A bigger Poland? A bigger Romania bordering Russia? https://t.co/AYou94QqJ4
"Ukraine is, of course, Russia:" Putin ally https://t.co/9rZxnqiTyc https://t.co/QbDx1kUULB
"Of course, Ukraine is Russia" Former russian president Medvedev admitted that Russia is waging a war of conquest and planning to take over Ukraine No more lies about “denazification”. They openly admit that their goal is the occupation and destruction of a neighboring country https://t.co/HI5XzDEMK3
lil Medvedev in a Dr Evil suit telling everyone what’s the real goal of the russian war in Ukraine is https://t.co/VQoOR8ijLs
Putin trots out little Medvedev in a Dr Evil suit they probably bought in the kid's section to show us their planned map for Ukraine in which the entire country consists of about 100 square kilometers around Kyiv. https://t.co/v1TE9qhxSb
Note Medvedev’s Dr Evil suit as he proclaims that “Ukraine is of course Russia” at the backdrop of a map that shows Ukraine almost entirely divided between Russia, Poland and Romania. Circus imperialism, what a career choice to make. https://t.co/Lb8HE0WVCH
🤡 Medvedev, amid a map of Russia's imperial ambitions, said that "Ukraine is definitely Russia" Dima, go back to the psychiatric ward. https://t.co/hn0osOYZmT
Wearing a Kim Jong-Un-style tunic, Dmitry Medvedev says "Ukraine is definitely Russia" and shows off a map of what he thinks should be left of Ukraine. Spoiler: not much! "Our geostrategic space has been indivisible since the time of the ancient Russian state," he says. https://t.co/lFxkqzKOjC
If the Kremlin’s intentions weren’t already clear enough, here is former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev saying today that the concept of an independent Ukrainian identity must "disappear for good" https://t.co/hqnPvXq4oA
Ukraine is definitely Russia - Medvedev. Then why do millions of Ukrainians resist with everything they have not to become "Russia"? And who will be the next "Russia" for the deluded Kremlin historians? https://t.co/aKTDzskJTP
Ukraine is definitely Russia - Medvedev. Then why do millions of Ukrainians resist with everything they have not to become "Russia"? https://t.co/22V9McejAU
Ukraine is definitely Russia - Medvedev. They are stating their genocidal intents loud and clear. Will the world hear them? They don't care what millions of Ukrainians think. https://t.co/5chaghancQ
Ukraine is, of course, Russia, Medvedev believes. Medvedev says Russia will prosecute its 'special military operation' in Ukraine until the other side capitulates. "Russia will eventually win the special military operation and make the neo-Nazis surrender." https://t.co/G7gtk9BUnh
MEDVEDEV SAYS RUSSIA WILL PROSECUTE ITS 'SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION' IN UKRAINE UNTIL THE OTHER SIDE CAPITULATES MEDVEDEV: RUSSIA WILL EVENTUALLY WIN THE SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION AND MAKE THE NEO-NAZIS SURRENDER
Medvedev and the Kremlin's imperial narratives: "Russia's borders doesn't end anywhere". https://t.co/Bry7VbIDaq