Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has given his strongest warning that the invasion in Ukraine may end up in a nuclear disaster, after US president Joe Biden lifted restrictions on Ukraine using American weapons for direct attacks on Russian soil. 

Two US officials confirmed that the US has lifted the restrictions, after officials from the White House, the US military and the State Department spent weeks discussing Ukraine’s usage of the weapons behind closed doors. 

Ukraine will only be allowed to use the weapons to defend the northeastern Kharkiv region, which is currently bearing witness to a drawn-out brawl for control of the region.  Russia was furious at the news of the US’ decision, launching strikes on the city of Kharkiv, the second-largest in Ukraine, that killed three people and wounded 23 others, including two children. 

Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s security council, also vowed that his nation would strike at such Western weapons in Ukraine or elsewhere if they are deployed from third countries. 

‘This is not ‘military assistance’ at all, but participation in a war against us. And such actions of theirs may well become a casus belli,’ said Medvedev. ‘No matter how much retired NATO farts chatter that Russia will never use non-strategic nuclear weapons against…Ukraine, and even more so in individual NATO countries, life is much worse than their frivolous reasoning,’ he said.

‘A few years ago, they insisted that Russia would not enter into an open military conflict with [Ukraine], so as not to quarrel with the West.’

This was a miscalculation as the current war shows.

‘The use of tactical nuclear weapons can also be miscalculated, although this would be a fatal mistake,’ said Medvedev, who was Russian president with his finger on the nuclear button from 2008 to 2012.

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