• Moscow may use every weapon in its arsenal.
• It involves strategic nuclear weapons.
• There is “no going back,” according to Medvedev.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has stated that Moscow may use every weapon in its arsenal, including strategic nuclear weapons, to defend territory it has annexed from Ukraine.

There is “no going back,” according to Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, who also declared on Thursday that referendums being organized by separatist and Russian-installed authorities in sizable portions of occupied Ukrainian territory will go place.

He made reference to the breakaway areas in the industrial heartland of eastern Ukraine in a Telegram post, saying that “the Donbas [Donetsk and Luhansk republics] and other territories would be absorbed into Russia.”

After mobilizing 300,000 reserve forces to fight in Ukraine on Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin issued a warning that Moscow would use “all available means” to defend Russia’s “territorial integrity.” Numerous Western politicians immediately denounced the flimsily disguised nuclear threat.

Medvedev, who frequently makes hostile remarks about the West and Ukraine, stated that the Russian military forces will greatly increase their level of protection for all the areas.

“Russia has indicated that any Russian weapons, including strategic nuclear weapons and weapons based on new principles, might be employed for such protection,” he said. “This includes mobilization capabilities as well.”

Votes on joining Russia are scheduled to begin on Friday in the Russian-controlled regions of the Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia, as well as a portion of Mykolaiv. It is widely anticipated that the results will massively favor joining Russia.

Kyiv and its Western allies have called the elections, which will take place under military control without any outside scrutiny, a fraud.

The seized regions, where Ukrainian counteroffensives have picked up steam in recent weeks, will be entitled to protection from Russian nuclear weapons under Moscow’s nuclear policy if they are formally accepted to the Russian Federation.

Only about 60% of Donetsk and 66% of Zaporizhia are now held by the Russian army, indicating that Moscow does not completely control any of the four provinces it is anticipated to try to conquer.

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