No use talking to ‘vassal’ Ukraine, racism, Western piracy: Medvedev comments

SAINT-PETERSBURG, June 24. /TASS/. As Ukraine is controlled from the outside, it makes no sense to hold talks with them, only with those who are pulling the strings, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum.

He also compared Western sanctions to piracy, essentially the "redistribution of someone else's property."

TASS has compiled the key statements made by the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council.

West’s ‘destructive ambitions’

Attempts to hold biased tribunals against the Russian state could trigger a war: "In the worst-case scenario, the implementation of such decisions could lead to war. In the literal sense of the word."