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Russia’s Medvedev warns Georgian breakaway regions could be annexed

Deputy head of Russia's Security Council Dmitry Medvedev visits a weapons manufacturing plant in Dubna, Moscow region, Russia, in February 2023 [File: Yekaterina Shtukina/Sputnik/pool via Reuters]

Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy secretary of the Kremlin’s powerful Security Council, has warned that Moscow could annex Georgia’s breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the Reuters news agency reported.

Medvedev, who has cast himself as one of Moscow’s most hawkish political voices since Russian forces launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, accused the West in a newspaper article published on Wednesday of creating tension over Georgia by discussing its possible membership in the NATO military alliance.

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