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Senior Russian official threatens to turn Kyiv into 'giant melted spot'Medvedev said Moscow already had formal grounds to use nuclear weapons since Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk region, but could instead use some of its new weapon technologies to reduce Kyiv to 'a giant melted spot' when its patience runs out.
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<div class="paragraphs"><p>Senior Russian security official and former president Dmitry Medvedev.&nbsp;</p></div>

Senior Russian security official and former president Dmitry Medvedev. 

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Senior Russian security official and former president Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday Russia could destroy Ukraine's capital Kyiv with non-nuclear weapons in response to the use of Western long-range missiles by Ukraine.

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Medvedev said Moscow already had formal grounds to use nuclear weapons since Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk region, but could instead use some of its new weapon technologies to reduce Kyiv to "a giant melted spot" when its patience runs out.

"Holy shit! It's impossible, but it happened," he wrote in English on the Telegram messaging app.

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(Published 14 September 2024, 14:37 IST)