Russia's Medvedev warns that breakaway Georgian regions could be annexed

Dmitry Medvedev

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy secretary of the Kremlin's powerful Security Council, has warned that Moscow could annex the breakaway regions of Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Reuters news agency reported.

Medvedev, who has cast himself as one of Moscow's toughest political voices since Russian forces launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, accused the West in a newspaper article published Wednesday of creating tension over Georgia by discussed its possible membership in the NATO military alliance.

While Russian relations with Georgia have improved since Tbilisi and Moscow fought a brief but bloody war in 2008 over the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Medvedev said Moscow would not hesitate to act if concerns about accepting potential in NATO are approaching reality.

Georgian officials have repeatedly said they are committed to joining the US-led NATO military alliance, seeing it as a way to preserve their country's territorial integrity./ CNA

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