MOSCOW, November 19. /TASS/: The West does not want to rupture relations with Russia completely, which is fraught with World War III, so they prod Kiev into holding talks with Moscow, but Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky does not want them in order not to acknowledge the fact of Ukraine’s break-up, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel on Saturday.
Medvedev pointed out that no one, including the Polish, had not been taken in by Ukraine’s "clumsy attempts" to shift responsibility for the missile incident in Poland to Russia. According to the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, it largely proves that "everyone is exhausted from the Kiev regime" and especially from Zelensky, who "is constantly stirring up tensions" and "demanding more and more handouts in money and arms."
"The United States, NATO and the European Union are unwilling to eventually break up with Russia, which is fraught with World War III. Hence the increasingly frequent attempts to circumscribe and talk sense into Kiev, and to push it out to enter into negotiations," Medvedev wrote.
Nevertheless, "Zelensky does not want any negotiations for quite obvious selfish reasons. Moreover, they [negotiations] are very dangerous for him," Medvedev continued.
"After all, unless he acknowledges the realities of Ukraine’s break-up, it makes no sense to sit down at the [negotiating] table. Once he admits it, he will be bumped off by his own nationalists who are connected with the army top brass, and of whom he is scared out of his wits," Medvedev said, describing the situation by the chess term ‘Zugzwang’ (in which each move of a player will worsen his/her position).
A missile crashed in the village of Przewodow in eastern Poland’s Lublin Voivodeship close to the border with Ukraine on November 15, killing two people. Polish President Andrzej Duda said this was not a deliberate attack on Poland. Warsaw has learned that the projectile was most likely an S-300 missile produced in the 1970s and used by the Ukrainian air defense forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry slammed the Polish media and statements coming from officials in Warsaw that the missile was allegedly Russian-made as a provocation, saying that Moscow did not strike anything near the Ukrainian-Polish border. The top brass pointed out that judging by the published photos, the debris had nothing to do with Russian missiles.
