Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry cheered the US strikes against Iran, and backed President Trump’s assertion that Tehran cannot be permitted to obtain nuclear weapons.
Meanwhile, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev blasted the move and starkly warned that “countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads,” while chiding that Trump can kiss his dreams of a Nobel Peace Prize goodbye.
“As early as this spring, the United States warned Iran of the consequences in the absence of constructive steps,” Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
“Iran is complicit in the crime of aggression against Ukraine. The Iranian regime is providing military assistance to Russia, including the supply of UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] and technologies that Russia consistently uses to kill people and destroy critical infrastructure.”
Throughout the war, Russia has turned to Iran and North Korea for resources to assist in its bloody invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Iran has supplied the Russians with critical drone technology.
Ukraine had once been in possession of the world’s third-largest stockpile of nuclear weapons during the collapse of the Soviet Union. It relinquished those nukes as part of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum in exchange for security guarantees from the US, Russia and the United Kingdom.
“We are convinced that the measures taken by the United States and Israel against Iranian nuclear facilities have sent a clear message to the Iranian regime — a message that the continuation of policies aimed at destabilizing regional security is unacceptable,” Kyiv added in a statement.
“As for Iran’s future, we firmly believe that the Iranian people — with their proud, millennia-old history –deserve a dignified, free, and happy life in peace and mutual understanding with Israel and all other nations of the world.”
Russia roundly condemned the strikes, with Medvedev being among the most forceful.
“A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads,” Medvedev put in an ominous X post. “At this rate, Trump can forget about the Nobel Peace Prize — not even with how rigged it has become. What a way to kick things off, Mr. President.”
There are at least eight countries believed to have nukes: China, India, France, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the US. Israel has been coy about whether it posses them.
Vice President JD Vance rebuked Medvedev’s apparent threat.
“First of all, I think it’s a bizarre response, but I also don’t know that that guy speaks for President Putin or for the Russian government,” Vance shot back. “[Russia has] been very consistent that they don’t want Iran to get a nuclear weapon.”
“I’ll let President [Vladimir] Putin speak to what the official Russian position on this is.”
Medvedev served as Russia’s president from 2008 to 2012 and is generally seen as a close ally of Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin. Currently, he serves as the deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
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