MOSCOW: Deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council and former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday warned that Moscow would consider any action by the UK to deploy a military contingent to Ukraine as a declaration of war.
A senior ally of President Vladimir Putin made the remarks in response to a visit by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to Kyiv to announce an increase in military assistance to help Ukraine purchase new military drones.
Medvedev in a post on Telegram said that he hoped that eternal enemies of Russia would understand that deploying an official military contingent to Ukraine would be a declaration of war against our country.
Meanwhile, Russian shelling killed two people in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Friday, while a drone attack by Kyiv in the Moscow-controlled east killed another two.
As the war approaches its second anniversary, both Ukraine and Russia blame each other of killing dozens of civilians in escalation of attacks.
The head of the Kherson region Oleksandr Prokudin added the Russian army used artillery, striking a street.
Russian-backed mayor Ivan Prikhodko said a Ukrainian drone also killed two people and injured six during an evacuation of injured people near the Russian-controlled city of Gorlivka.
The drone struck an ambulance transporting energy workers injured in previous shelling, killing a paramedic and an energy worker in the nearby village of Gorlivka, he said.
Gorlivka has been under Russian occupation since 2014, when it was captured by Kremlin-backed separatists.
