Moscow’s foes need to fear the revenge that is coming, the former president has said
Moscow should start putting together a database of “Russophobic scum” and put them on notice of inevitable retribution for their misdeeds, former president and head of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, has said.
Medvedev has long been a hardliner on the Ukraine conflict and began his latest Telegram post by criticizing “vile scum” in the West who advocated for letting Kiev strike deep into Russian territory with NATO weapons.
“I want to talk about something else, however: about the need to remember the criminal calls of individual Western freaks and prepare for retribution,” Medvedev wrote.
“It is necessary to use the enemy’s own weapon. Despite a number of obvious legal issues, it is worth considering creating an open public database of our enemies with their personal data. For quite practical purposes,” he added.
This was likely a reference to Mirotvorets (‘Peacemaker’), the notorious Ukrainian government-linked website that has hosted a database of supposed enemies of the state since 2014, following the US-backed coup in Kiev.
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A number of people in the database have ended up assassinated by Ukrainian intelligence, earning Mirotvorets the moniker of “Kiev’s kill list.” It has never been denounced, either by the Ukrainian government or its backers in the West.