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Medvedev: Ukraine is not a country, Zelenskiy is a "usurper"
Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former leader, posted on Telegram today an apparent response to a proposal put forth by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, a former Nato secretary general, to have Ukraine join the alliance without its currently Russian-occupied territories.
Medvedev, who now serves as deputy chair of Russia's security council, purported that it was basically an acknowledgment then that Crimea and Donbas were no longer Ukraine. "Not bad, but it's important to move on," he said. "We must admit that Odessa, Nikolaev, Kyiv, and practically everything else is not Ukraine at all."
He claimed that there were three more steps "before admitting the obvious": that Volodymyr Zelenskiy – "who does not go to the polls", Medvedev said – is not the president but a usurper, the Ukrainian language is not a language and Ukraine is not a country "but artificially collected territories".
Therefore, Ukraine, even without the Russian-occupied territories, cannot be accepted into Nato as it is not a country, reasoned Medvedev.
