Russia is fighting a holy battle against Satan, says former president

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday described Russia’s war in Ukraine as a sacred conflict with Satan, warning that Moscow could send all its enemies into the eternal fire of Gehenna.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine killed thousands and triggered the biggest confrontation with the West since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when the Cold War superpowers came closest to nuclear war.

Medvedev, who once cast himself as a liberal modernist as president from 2008 to 2012, said that Moscow was fighting “crazy Nazi junkies” in Ukraine backed by Westerners, who said that “the saliva of their was driving the chin down from the fall”.

Ukraine and the West have repeatedly rejected President Vladimir Putin’s claim that Ukraine is run by fascists who persecuted Russian speakers. Instead, he presented the war as a brutal land grab by Moscow.

In a message marking Russia’s National Unity Day, Medvedev said that the task of the Fatherland was to “stop the supreme ruler of Hell, whatever name he used – Satan, Lucifer or Iblis”.

Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said that Russia possesses various weapons, including the ability to “send all our enemies into the fiery Gehena”, a Hebrew word used often translated as Hell. goes.

Since the start of the war, Medvedev’s rhetoric has become increasingly furious, although his published views sometimes coincide with the thinking at the top levels of the Kremlin elite.

The weapons of the devil, said Medvedev, “were complex lies. And our weapon is the truth. Therefore our reason is right. Therefore the victory will be ours! Happy Holidays!”

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