The disappearance of #Ukraine from the map: a realistic possibility or a #Russian intimidation?

Russian positions continue to warn strongly against the continued flow of Western long-range weapons to the Ukrainian army, and that Russia will respond forcefully to this and will expand the scope of its geographical objectives on the Ukrainian front, so that it is not limited to the east.

In the last of these situations, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, spoke on Thursday about the possibility of Ukraine disappearing from the world map, through a post on his account on “Telegram” in which he stated that Ukraine as a country “as a result of everything that happens may disappear from the world map.” He added that the reason was their "sins" and that Russia "does not bear his responsibility."

Regarding the significance and consequences of the words of the senior Russian official about the possibility of Ukraine disappearing from the world map, Maher Al-Hamdani, an expert in European affairs, said in an interview with Sky News Arabia: “On the ground, there are major facts indicating that Ukraine is in the process of being partitioned, as republics and administrations are being formed. Independent of Kyiv and linked to Moscow, Russian citizenship is granted to residents of large Ukrainian regions, and so with the prolongation of the war, the Russian fait accompli is entrenched in those regions and cannot be changed.

And the expert on European affairs continues: "Russia from the beginning has been aware that Donbass is just a small battle in the context of a great war between it and the West, and it extends not only in the Ukrainian and European arena only, but its fields extend across the world's continents and oceans, even to the north and south poles. Ukraine has become a platform for Western conspiracy against them, and it is the one who ultimately paid the price as a result of that and announced its quest to join the Atlantic bloc to ensure its security. .
 That is why Al-Hamdani concludes by saying: "Medvedev's words seem realistic in his warning of the possibility of Ukraine wiping out from the map of the world, especially in light of the fact that some Western capitals are pricing the conflict and supplying Kyiv with advanced weapons, which obviously leads to the pricing of the war and more severe Russian reactions."

On the other hand, the academic and expert on Ukrainian affairs, Khalil Azima, said in an interview with Sky News Arabia: "Medvedev's beginning has no weight in the Russian political arena, and therefore there is no actual value for his statements, and his words about the 2014 Maidan revolution, which he calls a coup, reflect the extent of the horror." Russia is an extension of the Ukrainian democratic experience to Russia.

And he added, "For a long time, Russia has been using NATO's scarecrow to justify its expansionist wars against its neighboring countries, although NATO was and still exists in Turkey, Poland and the Baltic states, and now it will become closer to Moscow and St. Petersburg. Let us remember here Biden and Schultz's statements before the war, which It included explicit pledges that Ukraine was not ready to join NATO, and therefore the NATO issue was from the beginning just an excuse to pave the way for Russia's occupation of Ukraine."

And Azima adds: "The political map in Europe will change, but not as Medvedev expects that Ukraine will disappear from that map, unless Moscow uses its last card, which is nuclear weapons, then Russia's current existence itself will be questioned as well."

The expert on Ukrainian affairs continues: "After the failure of the Russians and their inability to achieve their goals by occupying Kyiv, as well as the opposite attack of the Ukrainian forces in the south on the Kherson front, and the Russian forces incurring heavy losses as a result of the entry of the HIMARS system and the M270 system on the battlefronts, the threat statements began to rise from Russia, And not only from Medvedev, but from Putin himself when he said that Russia had not yet begun the real war."