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Russian ex-president Medvedev says Trump’s Ukraine ‘ultimatum’ could lead to war
‘Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine’ but with Trump’s own country, Medvedev said
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Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday that US President Donald Trump was playing “the ultimatum game” with Russia and that such an approach could lead to a war involving the United States.
“Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with [Trump’s] own country,” Medvedev wrote in a post on social media.
Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s security council, also said Trump should remember that Russia is not Israel or Iran.
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Trump said on Monday that he was disappointed in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s failure to end the war in Ukraine and that he was reducing a deadline to agree a peace settlement from 50 days to 10 or 12.
Also on Monday, Medvedev said a framework trade agreement struck between the European Union and the United States was “anti-Russian” likening it to a de facto ban on buying Russian oil and gas.
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The US struck the deal with the EU on Sunday, imposing a 15 per cent import tariff on most EU goods.
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said in a statement afterwards that the agreement would help the bloc fully phase out Russian fossil fuels in favour of American alternatives.
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