Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, stated that Western countries used Georgia against Russia in 2008, but subsequently took “their shortcomings” into account.
Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum, he noted that after the collapse of the USSR, the West allegedly used “puppet regimes” against Russia, including Georgia, which in August 2008 “launched aggression against Abkhazia and South Ossetia,” TASS reports.
“It must be admitted that Europe and the United States prudently chose not to get involved in the conflict back then, and we agreed on what is called a bad peace. But unfortunately, on the other hand, they did not quench their thirst for blood, and they took their shortcomings into account,” Medvedev concluded.
