Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said that amid increasingly frequent Ukrainian strikes on Russian cities, there are now “no rules left and there cannot be any” for Russian military action against Kyiv.
He set out that position in a post on Max. According to Medvedev, given what he described as “massive terrorist attacks” on Russian cities, whose intensity he said is increasing and will continue to increase, the time has come to state openly that no rules remain in force with regard to what he called “neo-Nazi Kyiv.”
Medvedev said that the only thing that should remain beyond the bounds of what is acceptable for Russia is the “deliberate, knowingly intentional destruction of civilians.”
The former Russian president also said that the Hague Conventions on the laws and customs of war, in his view, are “no longer needed.”
The report notes that on the night of June 18, Ukrainian drones carried out the largest attack on Russian cities since the start of the war. The Russian Defense Ministry said it had destroyed nearly 1,000 drones in 24 hours.
Moscow was among the targets: a fire broke out at the oil refinery in Kapotnya. According to the source, Russian President Vladimir Putin had still not commented two days later on either the Ukrainian attack or the situation in Moscow.