Russia May Push Buffer Zone Into NATO Nation: Putin Ally

Russian official Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that Moscow may create a sanitary zone on the border with or inside Poland.

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia and ally of President Vladimir Putin, spoke of potentially creating a 'sanitary zone' either on the border with or inside Poland.On Friday, Ukraine hit fuel depots, oil facilities and a power station in southwestern Russia and Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula that Moscow has occupied since 2014.

and multiple experts on the region have denied Russia's claim that the war-torn country—whose president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish—is corrupted by Nazis.'If this continues, the guaranteed sanitary zone will be somewhere on the border with Poland. Or already in Poland itself,' Medvedev said.Newsweek reached out to the Russian government via online form and the Polish Foreign Affairs Ministry via email for comment.

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