Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday criticized the thousands of Russians who fled the country to avoid fighting in Ukraine, calling them “cowardly traitors”.
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On Russian Unity Day, he wrote in Telegram, on Russian Unity Day Russia would have been ‘stronger and cleaner’ without them, a feast introduced by President Vladimir Putin in 2005 to celebrate the 1612 victory over invading Polish forces.
“We have been abandoned by fearful and concerned people.” “Cowardly traitors and greedy dissidents fled to distant lands, leaving their bones to rot outside,” said this close friend of Vladimir Putin.
Tens of thousands of Russians fled the country when President Vladimir Putin launched war on Ukraine on February 24.
The second wave began when Vladimir Putin announced the mobilization of 300,000 reservists on September 21.
Since the Kremlin sent its forces into Ukraine, Dmitry Medvedev, 57, has been sending increasingly anti-Western messages on social networks.
Mr. Medvedev, who was president from 2008 to 2012 and then prime minister from 2012 to 2020, is currently the deputy head of Russia’s powerful Security Council.
