Closing Up to this level:
Dmitry Medvedev acknowledged Moscow does not survey world battle earlier than Russia-Ukraine-US peace talks, denying threats to Greenland and urging nonetheless amid rising tensions with the West.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with Reuters, TASS and WarGonzo shut to Moscow. (Image: Reuters)
Moscow does not desire a world battle, acknowledged Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Nationwide Security Council earlier than the Russia-Ukraine-US peace talks scheduled to be held in UAE this week.
In an interview with Reuters, TASS and the WarGonzo Russian battle blogger at his build outside Moscow, Medvedev praised US President Donald Trump and acknowledged it used to be encouraging that contacts had resumed with Washington. On the different hand, he identified that the West has time and again skipped over Russia’s interests.
“The mission is awfully unhealthy. The wretchedness threshold appears to be like to be reducing,” he said.
“We are not interested in a global conflict. We’re not crazy,” acknowledged Medvedev, who served as Russian president from 2008 to 2012. “A world battle can’t be dominated out.”
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The conflict first erupted in eastern Ukraine in 2014 a pro-Russian president was toppled in Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution.
However, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 triggered the biggest confrontation between the West and Moscow since the depths of the Cold War.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that two-day talks between US, Russian and Ukrainian envoys on halting the Ukraine war would start in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.
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The first round of negotiations took place in late January, but led to no new movement on the vital question of territory, with Moscow still demanding Kyiv cede more land in its war-torn east, which it refuses to do, Reuters reported.
Reuters reported that Vladimir Putin and Trump both have mentioned the risks of escalation over Ukraine, though European diplomats say that Moscow has skillfully played the escalation card to scare Ukraine’s allies from getting too heavily involved in the war.
“They say ‘No way – these Russians are making it all up – they are sowing horror stories and they will never do anything,” Medvedev acknowledged.
Allegations of Greenland Facing Risk From Russia
Dmitry Medvedev denied allegations that Greenland confronted threat from Russia or China and acknowledged they were fraudulent “wretchedness stories” made up by Western leaders to justify their own behaviour.
“This so known as threat from Russia and the Individuals’s Republic of China is honest a wretchedness legend,” he said.
“Right here is certainly a extreme order for Atlantic solidarity,” Medvedev acknowledged. “Perchance all the pieces will mosey per a calmer scenario earlier than militia intervention and combating right via the NATO bloc.”
Not too long ago, US President Donald Trump had claimed that Greenland confronted threats from Russia.
In one Truth Social post, he wrote: “Nato has been telling Denmark, for 20 years, that ‘you should procure the Russian threat away from Greenland.’ Sadly, Denmark has been unable to make one thing about it. Now it is time, and this might perhaps also be done!!!”
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February 02, 2026, 17:32 IST
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