A key Putin security lieutenant has issued a chilling warning to Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky saying he “is unlikely to have a chance of living to old age”.
The sickening new threat from Russian ex-president Dmitry Medvedev follows Mr Zelensky’s revelation that he has already survived at least five Kremlin assassination attempts. Mr Medvedev - now Putin’s deputy on the Russian security council - said: “All this cheap bravado also evokes one very obvious thought. With such powerful ‘prophecies’, this fool is unlikely to have a chance of living to old age. Thoughts are sometimes material.”
In his rambling in a post on social media site Telegram, 58-year-old Mr Medvedev said of Zelensky: “Lord, what a wretched thing this Bandera scarecrow is. The bearded misunderstanding in green, answering a question from the British tabloid the Sun about the number of certain ‘attempts’, muttered in a hoarse voice, shaking his ridiculous head: ‘not less… five–six’.
Putin with Dmitry Medvedev (Getty Images)“Well, even for the Sun it looks like a circus with horses. However, this figure is no longer taken seriously there.”
Zelensky, 45, had outlined Putin’s sinister bids to kill him in an interview with the Sun earlier this week, in it he said: "The first one is very interesting, when it is the first time, and after that it is just like Covid. First of all people don't know what to do with it and it's looking very scary."
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Asked how many attempts Russia had made to assassinate him, he said: "I don't know, really I don't know. I think not less [than] five, six...not less. They will use any, any instruments they have.”
Mr Medvedev was Russian president from 2008 to 2012 when Putin served as his prime minister. He then handed the top job back to the Russian dictator. Zelenksy also spelled out laid out new World War III fears and says he believes Vladimir Putin is waiting to be "pushed."
The Ukrainian president described how the horrors in his country could turn into a world war and accused the Russian president of "lighting fires" around the globe that risk spiralling out of control. He also claimed the carnage unleashed in Israel by Hamas militants in the October attack was a "really big wish" of Russia, and accused the Kremlin of stirring up trouble in the Balkans.
Zelensky said: "We think that they are preparing now in the Balkans, they are doing new steps. And we think that they are trying to train or even training some people. The idea is to begin one conflict and they don’t manage it, don’t try to stop it. Ukraine today is in the centre of these global risks of this Third World War. And I really think that Russia will push until the United States and China together will tell them very, very seriously to go out of (our) territory."
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