Dmitry Medvedev, former president of Russia and now number two on the Security Council, is one of Vladimir Putin’s super-hawks and, if what he says is really the Kremlin’s line, it seems unlikely that the war in Ukraine will come to a head soon negotiations.

Ukraine will disappear as a state as a result of this conflict, wrote Medvedev, in an editorial on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the invasion of Georgia by Moscow forces.

“It is already clear now how it will end: Kiev will have to face a crushing defeat as the Georgians had to do then. The Ukrainian state artificially created on the ashes of the Soviet Union will disappear from the political map of the world”, explained the former President.

Not only. Medvedev said Moscow was forced to launch a military operation against Ukraine to prevent an aggression by the West and the Kiev authorities. “The way the West and its Kiev puppets acted in the Donbass situation is known.

It was the same hypocrisy, the same tricks and the same hidden agenda. Preparations were gradually proceeding on all possible tracks for a large-scale act of aggression against Russia. Things were following the pattern that was set in place in a mountainous and slightly warmer country than the Caucasus 15 years earlier,” Medvedev wrote referring to Georgia and South Ossetia.

“Only with force was a fatal outcome avoided, because the talks had lost all meaning”. “We had to launch a military operation. There is a huge difference between trusting one’s partners and naivety. They failed to fool us,” noted Medvedev.