Medvedev: If Ukraine Wins in Counteroffensive, Russia Goes Nuclear

Former president says, "Our enemies should pray for our warriors’ (success). They are making sure that a global nuclear fire is not ignited"

Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, has been an outspoken critic of Western intervention in Ukraine. (Photo: Nuclear weapon test, March 1, 1954, on Bikini Atoll. US Department of Energy.)

Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president and close Putin ally, said Sunday that Moscow would have to go nuclear if Ukrainian forces somehow start to win in their counteroffensive.