Vladimir Putin's closest aides has warned him that the West is seeking to “destroy Russia ”. The worrying message came from former-president Dmitry Medvedev, and was part of a rant about using nuclear weapons in Ukraine.He is now the deputy head of the Russian security council. READ MORE: SAS train Ukrainian soldiers to use inflatable tanks to trick Putin's Russian troopsAccording to local media reports, he has portrayed the West acting in an "extremely aggressive" geopolitical assault on Moscow."Their goal is the same - to destroy Russia,” he warned.“This is the root cause of the aggressive Russophobic geopolitical process initiated by the West.“As in the case of Georgia, the Americans deliberately strengthened the feeling of impunity in Kyiv, pumped him with weapons, encouraged the killing of civilians in Donbas. “And now they continue to exercise with Ukraine, the fate of which they absolutely do not care.
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