(Reuters) – Russia’s Deputy Security Council Chairman Dmitry Medvedev stated on Thursday that in sure circumstances, sanctions towards Moscow might be seen as an act of aggression and a justification for war.

“I wish to level out as soon as once more that beneath sure circumstances such hostile measures may qualify as an act of worldwide aggression. And at the same time as a casus belli (justification for war),” Medvedev stated, including that Russia has the proper to defend itself.

Russia has confronted a barrage of crippling financial sanctions from Western nations in response to its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, which it calls a “particular army operation”.

Medvedev, a former Russian president who was as soon as seen as a liberal, has emerged as one of the hawkish proponents of the war, delivering a sequence of scathing denunciations of the West.

(Reporting by Reuters)