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Medvedev: Russia will achieve its goal in Ukraine

One of President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies on Monday said Russia will achieve its goals in the conflict in Ukraine on its own terms, warning that the West has a plan. long-term plan to destroy Russia.

“Russia is conducting a special military operation in Ukraine and is achieving peace on our terms,” ​​former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who holds the post of deputy chairman of Russia’s security council, told the Kremlin. TASS in an interview.

Medvedev sparked the 2008 war in Georgia, the western expansion of the NATO military alliance, and the war in Ukraine as part of efforts by the United States and its allies to destroy Russia.

“The goal is the same: destroy Russia,” he said.