Medvedev declared Russia 's right to defense due to "illegal sanctions

"may regard them as an act of aggression and a form of hybrid warfare. He promised

Anti-Russian sanctions adopted bypassing the UN are not internationally recognized, are illegal and can be regarded as an act of international aggression, said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev in his Telegram channel.

He believes that sanctions are coercive measures that the UN Security Council takes on the basis of Art. 41 of the UN Charter in relation to the offending state. “I would like to emphasize that there is no other way to accept them. Everything else is reprisals that are not internationally recognized, are not sanctions in the sense of international law,” Medvedev wrote.

From this, in his opinion, it follows that everything that Western countries have done "almost a thousand times lately in relation to Russia" is a violation of its rights as a sovereign state. The restrictions under which Moscow is located are illegal, and illegal sanctions “under certain circumstances can be qualified as an act of international aggression on the part of individual states or their unions,” as a form of hybrid war, the deputy chairman of the Security Council warned. In such circumstances, Russia has the right to individual and collective defense "within the framework of national legislation and international law."

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“No one should have any doubts that Russia will use this right in the forms and limits it considers appropriate,” Medvedev stressed.

He expressed confidence that the sanctions "will someday end", and their result will be a destroyed international order, degradation of the system of international law and dire consequences for the world economy. In Russian society, there will be consolidation around power, the strengthening of the existing political regime and the concentration of negative emotions among the population in relation to states that impose sanctions, Medvedev is sure.

The main task of Russia in the face of sanctions pressure, according to him, is to do everything so that the restrictions help the country solve "the most important production and technological problems."

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The EU countries, Great Britain, the USA and many other states have imposed several packages of sanctions against Russia due to the military operation in Ukraine. Unprecedented restrictions have affected state-owned companies, business, the financial sector and other areas.

Medvedev has previously stated that sanctions will not be able to stop the military operation, Moscow will continue hostilities until it reaches the goals set by the president (this is, in particular, the “demilitarization and denazification” of Ukraine, its recognition of Crimea as part of Russia, the neutral status of a neighboring state).