VLADIMIR Putin’s crony has hit back at Donald Trump with a thinly veiled nuclear threat as relations continue to sour between Moscow and DC.
It comes as nine people, including a child, have been killed in Putin’s latest nightly blitz on Ukraine.
Dmitry Medvedev, who was Russian President between 2008 and 2012, has threatened America with nuclear annihilation in the tit-for-tat row with Trump.
He said: “If some words of the former Russian president [Medvedev] cause such a nervous reaction in the entire, formidable US president, then Russia is right in everything and will continue to go its own way.
“And about the “dead economy” of India and Russia and “entering dangerous territory” – well, let him remember his favorite films about the “walking dead”, as well as how dangerous a “dead hand” that does not exist in nature can be.”
Medvedev may be referring to Moscow’s “Dead Hand” nuclear weapons system which is designed to launch a retaliation strike even if the Kremlin leadership is wiped out.
It is not clear what Medvedev is talking about when he mentions Trump’s favourite film and the “walking dead”.
He responded after Trump took a shot at Russia and India complaining about trade and telling Medvedev to “watch his words”.
Trump said: “I don’t care what India does with Russia. They can take their dead economies down together, for all I care.
“We have done very little business with India, their Tariffs are too high, among the highest in the World. Likewise, Russia and the USA do almost no business together.
“Tell Medvedev, the failed former President of Russia, who thinks he’s still President, to watch his words.
“He’s entering very dangerous territory!”
Trump posted after the Russian had previously compared Trump to “Sleepy Joe” Biden and threatened war in his incendiary remarks.
He added: “Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war.
“Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country. Don’t go down the Sleepy Joe road!”
Tyrant Vlad continues to bomb Ukraine despite Trump’s shortened peace deadline quickly dwindling.
Some 107 people have been injured, including nine children, in the latest salvo of missiles and drones across Ukraine.
Seven were killed in Kyiv and 62 were injured there after Vlad sent eight Iskander-K cruise missiles and 309 Shahed drones with five hitting buildings directly, the armed forces said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky posted a video of burning ruins, saying people were still trapped under the rubble of one residential building.
He said: “Kyiv. Missile strike. Directly into a residential building. People under the rubble. All services are on site. Russian terrorists.”
The brave leader later added: “Today, the world once again saw Russia’s response to our desire for peace, shared with America and Europe.
“New, showcase killings. That is why peace without strength is impossible.”
Heartbreaking scenes saw rescuers carrying the dead child across the rubble of the collapsed nine-storey apartment building in the Sviatoshynskyi district of Kyiv.
A report said Iskander-K cruise missiles with cluster warheads were used on Kyiv to “increase civilian casualties”.
Huge explosions could be seen across the Kyiv skyline overnight.
As dawn broke fires continued to burn while rescue workers surveyed the destroyed buildings.
Bombs also struck Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Sumy, and Zaporizhzhia.
The latest strike shows Putin has no intention of avoiding Trump’s ire and cutting a peace deal with Ukraine.
The US President has repeatedly said that the nightly bombing of civilians shows him Vlad isn’t serious about peace.
Trump’s shortened 10-day deadline could now see massive sanctions slapped on Russia or those who buy Moscow’s oil by August 8.
Putin is building up towards sending 1,000 drones and missiles at Ukraine a night.
The deadly blitzes are intended to sap morale and hammer civilian infrastructure.
But Trump has agreed to sell air defences to Ukraine and provide them with long range missiles to hit bombers, airstrips, and factories.
The continued salvos have only further deepened the war of words between Washington DC and Moscow.
Trump slammed tyrant Putin while visiting Scotland earlier this week as he has not taken Trump’s peace efforts seriously.
Trump said was “very disappointed” with him and said there was “no reason” to not implement sanctions earlier on Russia.
He has made getting peace in Ukraine a priority and has talked to Putin directly as he has tried to get him to cut a deal.
But the tyrant has not moved away from his maximalist demands and will only sign a deal that leaves Ukraine defenceless.
Vlad has spent months talking up the prospect of peace, but appears to have alienated Trump after launching huge barrages at Ukrainian civilians.
Source : https://www.the-sun.com/news/14872650/donald-trump-russia-ukraine-bombing/