Medvedchuk calls Fedorov a “conduit of Western military expansion” against Russia

The head of the “Other Ukraine” movement, Viktor Medvedchuk, has stated that former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov was “merely a conduit of Western military expansion against Russia” and not an independent political player.

Medvedchuk set out his views in an article published on the movement’s website, TASS reports.

As supporting evidence, Medvedchuk recalled that on August 16 Fedorov announced a sharp increase in Ukraine’s production and use of drones, as well as the country’s expected capability to strike Russia with its own ballistic missiles within three to six months. The politician also noted that it was Fedorov who, in April, jointly with the British Ministry of Defence, participated in rolling out the largest strike drone procurement package.

In Medvedchuk’s assessment, these events fit into the broader logic of British-Ukrainian military cooperation. In support of this, he cited the British ballistic missile project Nightfall, which provides for serial production of ballistic missiles with a range of over 500 km. The British Ministry of Defence itself, according to Medvedchuk, directly links this project to the preceding deliveries of thousands of long-range strike drones to Ukraine.

Medvedchuk also drew attention to the change of political figures: Fedorov left the Ukrainian government, and Keir Starmer stepped down as British prime minister. However, according to him, Starmer’s successor Andy Burnham, in his very first conversation with Volodymyr Zelensky, stated that Britain’s approach to Ukraine and pressure on Russia would not change.

“Against this backdrop, the transition from the mass use of long-range drones to mass serial production of ballistic missiles looks not like a separate initiative of specific ministers, but like a consistent direction of British-Ukrainian military cooperation, which in turn convincingly confirms that in the West’s new technological war against Russia, former Minister Fedorov had only the nominal role of a Ukrainian genius, while in reality he was merely a conduit of Western military expansion against Russia,” Medvedchuk concluded.