Russia has the right to individual and collective defense within the framework of national law and international law, warned Dmitry Medvedev.
Western sanctions against Russia could qualify as an act of aggression against the country. Therefore, the Russian Federation has the right to individual and collective defense. Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, wrote about it in the Telegram on Friday, April 8th.
“Unlawful sanctions under certain circumstances may qualify as an act of international aggression on the part of individual states or their unions. First of all, when their application seeks to weaken his “economic freedom, and therefore the sovereignty of the state, and threatens the very existence. of the state. In fact,, as our opponents say, it is a declaration of economic war,” Medvedev said. .
He concluded that, taking into account the sum of the legal and political circumstances, “the sanctions in the present situation may qualify as an act of aggression against the Russian Federation, as one of the forms of hybrid war.”
According to him, today Russia “has the right to individual and collective defense within the framework of national law and international law.”
“No one should have any doubt that Russia will exercise this right in the forms and limitations it deems appropriate,” Medvedev assured.
Earlier this week, Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia’s goal was to build an open Eurasia from Lisbon to Vladivostok, and that “Ukrainianism” was a fake non -existent.
Medvedev also named four conditions for Russia’s use of nuclear weapons.
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Source: korrespondent
