The recent words of top Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev about nobody needing Ukraine and why it should no longer exist were harshly criticised by Polish Government Plenipotentiary for the Security of Information Space Stanisław Żaryn, who also called Medvedev “a bore.”

Medvedev made these comments in a piece published Saturday on the Russian social media page Vkontakte, where he also called Ukraine’s emergence a result of “misunderstanding” after the collapse of the Soviet Union, TASS reported.

“The same old crap from Medvedev. He is like a broken record. Nothing new in his piece. Bore…” tweeted Żaryn. Ukraine is doing “a great job countering Russian invasion”, he added.

Żaryn suggested that Medvedev’s statement was an attempt to draw attention to Russian forces’ poor performance in Ukraine. “It seems that Medvedev needs to cover the evidence of Russian failure on UA,” he wrote in his post.

Medvedev presented six points in the piece published Saturday to argue his stance on an “unneeded Ukraine.” He explained why, in his view, citizens from Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia, Russia and even Ukraine have an interest in Ukraine existing any longer.

He argued that Ukrainian society must live in constant fear due to the “murderous ambitions of the Kyiv regime,” as Kremlin propaganda usually refers to Ukraine’s authorities.

Last July, Medvedev put forward the idea of partitioning Ukraine, with Poland, Hungary, and Russia scrapping the country of most of its current territories. In his Saturday post, the former Russian president reminded a thesis frequently repeated by Moscow and its media that Poland is thinking of regaining its historic territories that now belong to Ukraine.

Kremlin often says that the military conflict in Ukraine was the fault of Europe and the US, as the West has long provoked Russia by militarising Ukraine and the enlargement of NATO, which former Commander of Polish Land Forces General Waldemar Skrzypczak defied, interviewed by EURACTIV.pl, published on Monday.

“There is no doubt that it is Russians to blame for everything bad that takes place in Eastern Europe,” he said, adding that “no one believes in the Kremlin’s narrative and no one seeks another offender” when it comes to the war in Ukraine.

(Aleksandra Krzysztoszek | EURACTIV.pl)