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Russia ‘will strike again’
ITN
Friday,August 15, 2008
Russia will use force again if it is provoked, president Dmitry Medvedev has warned.
Mr Medvedev said Russia had no regrets about invading Georgia, adding: “If someone continues to attack our citizens, our peacekeepers, we will of course respond in just the same way we have responded. There should be no doubt about this.”
Russia invaded its neighbour last week after fighting broke out between Georgia and pro-Russian separatists in South Ossetia.
Mr Medvedev also predicted the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia will never be part of Georgia again.
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He ruled out handing back control of the breakaway border regions to Tbilisia and vowed Russian troops would stay in both areas.
Mr Medvedev said: “Unfortunately after what has happened it is unlikely that the Ossetians and the Abkhazians will be able to live in one state together with the Georgians.”
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He added Russian peacekeepers would guarantee the “will of the people” of the two regions.
And he said a deal to deploy parts of a US anti-missile system in Poland was directly aimed at Russia.
The Kremlin bitterly opposed the pact between its neighbours Poland and the Czech Republic and the US to site missiles and radar installations in central Europe.
Mr Medvedev said: “This decision clearly demonstrates everything we have said recently. The deployment of new anti-missile forces has as its aim the Russian Federation.”
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