"Ukraine is not Korea": Security Council Secretary responds to Medvedev regarding division along the "38th parallel"
Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine reacted to the words of Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, regarding the development of events in Ukraine "according to the Korean scenario" and the division of the country along a conditional parallel.
Source: Danilov on Twitter, Medvedev on Telegram
Quote from Danilov: "Ukraine is not Korea. There will be no 38s [a circle of latitude that was used as the pre-Korean War boundary, now a border between the Koreas – ed.] and other parallels, other people's stories and scenarios imposed from the outside. The coordinates of the movement of the ‘Russian warship’ are set, no changes are provided, and the Defence Forces of Ukraine are working."
Details: Medvedev said in his post that Ukraine seems to be considering the possibility of a "Korean scenario" in the war with Russia, seeking to become like South Korea and hoping for the liberation of the occupied territories.
But, according to Medvedev, the "Korean scenario" is impossible, because Russia is "a state with full sovereignty and the most formidable weapons". He also threatened that Ukraine will be "divided into parts".
Background:
- At the end of March 2022, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Kyrylo Budanov, stated that Russia will try to impose a "Korean" scenario on Ukraine and gather all the occupied territories into a single quasi-state entity.
- Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov in an interview with Ukrainska Pravda in August 2022 said that "the Korean route is impossible for us, for the reasons that the Russians would have had such a chance if they had frozen the conflict in 2014". "But the Kremlin was not satisfied with this, they went on an open offensive," the head of the defence ministry stressed.
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