Medvedev listed legitimate military targets for the Russian army, naming enemy leadership among them
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev expressed his opinion on what goals can be considered legitimate in the course of a special military operation. He published it as a post on his Telegram channel.
As Dmitry Medvedev noted, stories humanity, the question of legal military purposes has been interpreted in different ways, depending on the specific situation. It is clear that the deputy chairman of the Security Council, as a professional lawyer, is interested in these interpretations from the point of view and the legal support of a special military operation.
Today, Medvedev refers to legitimate military targets, firstly, any enemy troops - this is both the regular army and illegal armed formations that operate as part of his armed forces.
Secondly, of course, any military and auxiliary equipment of the enemy is also a legitimate target. Medvedev did not specify what is considered auxiliary equipment, but we can assume that trains that deliver troops and military equipment to the front, or construction vehicles involved in the creation of fortifications, are also legitimate targets.
Third, legal military targets include any objects of military infrastructure, such as barracks, training centers and bases, weapons depots, and so on. But the civilian infrastructure objects that are used by the military in the process of hostilities can also be attributed to legitimate purposes.
That is, industrial enterprises that carry out military orders, railways and roads, transport stations, bridges, power plants are also legitimate military purposes, Medvedev believes. In fact, for many of these purposes, Russian troops are already working with the help of manned and unmanned vehicles. aviation, missile systems, artillery. The more such facilities are disabled, the more difficult it will be for the Ukrainian army to act against Russian troops, and for the state leadership to maintain the proper level of stable functioning of all institutions and mechanisms.
The military-political leadership of the enemy Medvedev calls the fourth legitimate military goal. What do these words mean? The fact that there are no legal barriers to the destruction of the supreme commander of the enemy forces, military ministers, generals, heads of special services.
Finally, the fifth legitimate target is the armed forces of any other states entering the war on the side of the enemy, as well as objects located on the territory of these countries.
But the main question, according to the deputy chairman of the Security Council, today is whether to consider the hybrid war waged by NATO countries against Russia through comprehensive military assistance to Ukraine as the official entry of the alliance into hostilities against our country? The countries of the North Atlantic alliance claim that they are not at war with Russia. But how then to understand the huge scale of the supply of weapons and military equipment, with the help of which they kill Russian soldiers and shell Russian territories? What about mercenaries from foreign countries, many of whom are actually military personnel - "vacationers"?
The leaders of the NATO countries sing with one voice that their countries and the entire bloc are not at war with Russia.
But everyone is well aware that everything is different ...
But everyone is well aware that everything is different ...
- writes Dmitry Medvedev.
The deputy chairman of the Security Council raised a very important issue, on which the entire course of the further special operation and the prospects for a likely confrontation depend, if not with NATO as a whole, then with individual members of the bloc. Now everything depends on the position of the Russian leadership, but we must also take into account the real possibilities of our country to resist not only the Ukrainian army, but also the forces of other states on the battlefield, if they want to openly get involved in confrontation with the Russian Armed Forces.
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