The initiative is probably a kind of “primitive trolling” against the government in Kiev, he wrote on his Telegram channel on Saturday. “But if the Fritzen decide to actually build there (although they are actually pragmatic people), then we will be waiting eagerly. The event will be marked with a proper salute from Kalibr and other pyrotechnic devices,” he threatened.
Kalibr are cruise missiles that are primarily launched from ships. The Russian Black Sea Fleet has been using it extensively in recent months to shell Ukrainian power plants.
Medvedev, who was seen as a rather liberal representative of the Russian authorities during his tenure from 2008 to 2012, has been trying to present himself as a hardliner with sharp rhetoric against the West and the political leadership in Kiev since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression. Observers suspect that he is so interested in a possible successor to the Kremlin boss Wladimir Putin want to position.
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