One of Vladimir Putin’s most powerful cronies claimed he was the victim of hacking after posting on social media that Russia should invade Georgia and Kazakhstan after “liberating” Ukraine in order to bring back the USSR.
If accurate, it indicates that Dmitry Medvedev, the current vice chairman of Vladimir Putin’s influential security council, suffered a serious and humiliating security violation.
“All the peoples who previously lived in the great and magnificent Soviet Union will once again live together in friendship and mutual understanding,” the 4 a.m. post, which has since been removed, said.
“We will use all available resources to do it.”
We have already started down this route.
Some others questioned whether or not the post was hacked. It was written in the same bellicose tone as his most recent posts, and although his aide claimed it was hacked, opponents saw it as outlining exactly what many Putin fans hope for.
From 2008 to 2012, when Vladimir Putin resigned to become prime minister for four years, Dmitry Medvedev was president of Russia. Later, he was prime minister (from 2012 to 2020).
What would happen following the “liberation of Kyiv and all the lands of Little Russia from the gangs of nationalists” in Ukraine was hypothesised in the post.
As it was a thousand years ago, during the reign of the Old Russian state, Russia would “again become united, powerful, and unbeatable,” the post declared.
Next, “we will launch the next campaign to restore the frontiers of our nation, which, as you know, do not stop anywhere,” under the coordinated leadership of Moscow and the Slavic people.
The article threatened Georgia, a pro-Western nation, by asserting that it “was founded in its current borders solely within the Russian Empire.”
Georgia contacted Russia because it recognised that country as its lone friend in a region of Muslim states that was mostly hostile.
The same narrative is currently being repeated.
“Only as a single entity with Russia can North and South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and the remaining area of Georgia be united.”
The post then posed a threat to Kazakhstan’s sovereignty, the ninth-largest nation in terms of area.
‘On the untamed lands of northern Kazakhstan, Russians built the first villages at the beginning of the 17th century.
“Russian colonisation of the region lasted for three centuries, mostly as a result of the Trans-Siberian Railway’s opening and the Stolypin agrarian reforms.
62.5% of the people in northern Kazakhstan were Slavs prior to the fall of the Soviet Union.
“Kazakhstan is a manufactured state.”
“Kazakh authorities began programmes for resettling numerous ethnic groups inside the republic in this century, which might be characterised as the extermination of Russians.
Furthermore, we are not going to ignore this.
“No order till the Russians arrive there,” was the statement.
Moscow has used the nonexistent “genocide” as a justification for its brutal invasion of Ukraine, which began in February of this year.
He may have been inebriated and “got too frank about what he thinks over the night,” according to one Telegram channel, which questions whether it was a hack.
According to the channel, it’s likely that “he actually thinks this, but isn’t allowed to say it.”
Russia’s top female opposition leader and TV host Ksenia Sobchak stated: “Medvedev’s post about Kazakhstan was justified as a hack [by] his aide Oleg Osipov.”
She then questioned, “Do we believe it?”
Are we certain that this was a hack, asked a security source? Medvedev is heavily protected, and the Federal Protection Service continues to provide him with protection as a senior official.
If so, there was a significant security lapse.
Maybe he’s using it to spread a menacing message.
Or maybe it’s the result of a conflict among the elite, where someone is trying to make him look bad.
The VK administration and those who are in charge of handling situations like this will deal with the people who hacked Ospiov’s page yesterday, according to Ospiov.
Russia and the Russian-backed self-declared republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia engaged Georgia in the South Caucasus in 2008, in what is known as the first war of the twenty-first century.
Russia invaded Georgia in whole, including its indisputable territory, after falsely accusing it of committing “genocide” and “aggression against South Ossetia.” The conflict concluded on August 12 after 12 days of violence.
Numerous civilians were killed and numerous others were injured when Russia sent its military into Kazakhstan at the beginning of the year to put down an uprising.
Both of the two nations were a part of the USSR, which disintegrated in 1991.
Joe Biden urged the continuation of discussions on a new nuclear armaments deal on Monday, but Medvedev rejected the proposal, saying it was inappropriate in light of the current state of affairs.
He said that he had repeatedly informed Washington that important issues—such as a framework to replace the New START treaty—could not be resolved without Russian participation.
Writing on his Telegram channel, Medvedev claimed that Biden had “reluctantly spat out” the call for new negotiations, alluding to Soviet-American arms deals that were reached despite challenges during the Cold War.
All of this is obviously beneficial. However, let me reiterate that the current state of affairs is significantly worse than it was during the Cold War,’ wrote Medvedev, who held the office of president for four years while Vladimir Putin was prime minister.
Much worse! And not because of our own fault. The most important question is: Do we really need this? The landscape has changed.
Biden’s suggestion to negotiate the New START Treaty when it expires in 2026 has previously been met with confusion, according to a source in the Russian foreign ministry.
In a statement released on Monday, Biden said that while his administration was prepared to ‘expeditiously’ create a new framework, Russia should show that it was also prepared to resume nuclear arms control negotiations with the United States.
Has the White House website been hacked, or is this a serious statement? a source in the Russian foreign ministry told Reuters. If they are still serious, who specifically do they plan to discuss this with?
The New START Treaty, signed in 2011, required the US and Russia to limit the number of heavy bombers with nuclear armaments, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and intercontinental ballistic missiles deployed.
Additionally, it placed restrictions on the number of nuclear warheads that may be carried by those bombers, missiles, and launchers.
The pact was extended till the end of February 4, 2026 when both parties met its main objectives on February 5, 2018.