“Ukraine has now completely, unfortunately, lost its political independence. Today it serves as a blind weapon in the hands of the collective West against Russia,” TASS quoted him as saying during a speech at the “For Freedom of Nations” forum in Moscow.

Earlier, Medvedev commented on the plans of European business, according to which the end point of the projected Mediterranean railway will be Lviv, not Kyiv.

According to him, the territory of Ukraine in the future may be limited only to the Lviv region.