[Regnum] The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, is a legitimate military target for Russia, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said on May 20, Gazeta reports.
Zelensky's loss of legitimacy as the head of the Ukrainian state does not change anything because Zelensky heads a political regime hostile to Russia, "and the leaders of countries waging war are always seen as a legitimate military target," Medvedev said.
Zelensky is a war criminal, noted the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council.
As Regnum reported, Medvedev also said on May 20 that the cancellation of the presidential elections in Ukraine means the transformation of this country into a failed state and the death of this project. In addition, he suggested that Zelensky canceled the elections because he was afraid of competition, including from the former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny and his own predecessor Petro Poroshenko.
On May 16, the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council called Zelensky’s trip to Kharkov a “farewell visit ” and reminded the head of the Kiev regime about the fate of the executed Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, publishing a corresponding photograph. Mussolini was executed in 1945 as a war criminal, he was hanged in Piazza Loreto in Milan.
On May 4, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs put Zelensky, Poroshenko and a number of other former and current leaders of Ukraine on the wanted list after the 2014 coup. Russia actually delivered an ultimatum to the United States: either people not associated with the Maidan come to power in Ukraine, or the North Military District will continue until the complete dismantling of the Ukrainian state, followed by direct negotiations between the Russian Federation and the United States, noted IA Regnum columnist Gevorg Mirzayan in his article.