Dmitry Medvedev in an exclusive interview with Аргументы и факты

https://aif.ru/politics/russia/dmitriy-medvedev-poryadok-zapada-eto-kidalovo

“Ukrainian idiots in power immediately after the collapse of the USSR tried to build their statehood on the denial of everything that unites us.

It is difficult to highlight any milestones here, because it was a cynical and disgusting policy in its maliciousness. Almost every president of Ukraine was its adherent.

On the one hand, we have heard endless pathetic stories about how wonderful Ukraine will be when it becomes a member of NATO or the EU.

On the other hand, assurances of eternal friendship with Russia were poured in, to the accompaniment of which there was a lascivious begging for sources of livelihood for Ukrainians – gas, oil, money.

On the third hand, we have seen attempts to erase the historical memory of millions of people into powder, to turn them into narrow-minded, brutal Bandera mankurts.

A variety of means were used: from the adoption of openly Russophobic laws, of which there were a great many, to direct mockery of those who objected.

And all this under the stinking excrement of the West that, they say, Ukraine is a sovereign state and therefore has the right to do what it wants.

We now know well the price of this sovereignty. Just look at the sea of ​​yellow and black flags in the military cemeteries of the failed state.”