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World On Brink Of WW3 Due To West Escalating, Medvedev Warns<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Days after he\u00a0warned<\/a>\u00a0NATO of the likelihood of nuclear war if Russia is defeated in Ukraine,\u00a0former Russian president and current deputy chairman of the security council\u00a0Dmitry Medvedev on Monday said the world stands\u00a0on the brink of World War III due to US and Western aggression against Russia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“The world has come close to the threat of World War III due to\u00a0impending US aggression<\/strong>\u00a0against the Russian Federation,” Medvedev said in comments first reported by\u00a0Sky News Arabia<\/a>. He also emphasized he sees the conflict at a point of no return. “There are no conditions for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine now, either de facto or de jure,” Medvedev said.<\/p>\n

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On the same day,\u00a0Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov voiced something similar, saying the confrontation with NATO can no longer be seen as merely a “hybrid war” or proxy war, but is instead fast approaching a real one. He said this in a joint press conference with his South African counterpart, Naledi Pandor<\/p>\n

Lavrov explained that this “almost real”\u00a0– as he put it\u00a0according<\/a>\u00a0to state media, was something the West\u00a0“has been preparing for a long time against Russia.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

He further charged that Ukraine’s leadership has created “presidents of war”\u00a0and “Russophobic leaders” – particularly in reference to Present Zelensky and before him Petro Poroshenko.<\/p>\n

Russian presidential spokesman\u00a0Dmitry Peskov additionally sounded the alarm in separate Monday remarks, saying that the current rush to supply Western-made tanks to the battlefield will severely escalate the conflict. “The Ukrainian people will pay the burden of this so-called support,” he said.<\/p>\n