Russia warns Ukraine: if they attack Crimea, they will use “any weapon”
The vice president of the Russian Security Council, Dimitri Medvedev, warned Ukraine this Saturday that if it attacks the Crimea region there will “inevitably” be an escalation of the conflict with the use of more forceful weapons. “An attack on Crimea would mean an attack on Russia and an escalation of the conflict,” he said, according to the Russian news agency TASS. kyiv should understand that such actions would be met by “an inevitable reaction using any weapon.” Medvedev has published a message on Twitter in English in which he maintains that “international law respects the will of the people”, referring to the vote in which the Crimean population approved its accession to Russia. The referendum, not recognized by the vast majority of the international community, gave more than 95 percent support for the annexation to the Russian Federation. (EP)