Vice President of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedevhas assured that “nothing must be ruled out” and has threatened to attack the capital of Ukraine again: “If we have to go to Kyiv, then we will arrive in Kyiv. If we have to go to Lviv, then we will go to Lviv to end this infection”, he asserted. But, is this a real threat? Both Yago Rodríguez and Ruth Ferrero agree in Al Rojo Vivo that it is a “bravado“.

“At this point in the war, it seems to me to be bravado,” the director of ‘The Political Room’ says in this regard, who recalls that “they could not with the Russian army of February 24which was far superior to what Ukraine had and which came completely fresh.”

“The Russian army today with all those people with weeks or a few months of training, in the best of cases, is not in a position to carry out offensive operations of this magnitude“, asserts Rodríguez, who emphasizes that the Russian troops “have already been suffering for four months for taking a city of 75,000 inhabitants.”

An opinion shared by the Political Science professor, who stresses that “we are seeing spectacular testosterone levels throughout this war” and that “wars are very full of this bravado, of these rants so masculine.”

In his opinion, Medvedev’s statements “we have to take them as a message to your own public opinion“. “It’s not so much that they are going to launch an offensive against Kyiv or Lviv, but rather what they are trying is that the Russian population does not get nervous“, sums up Ferrero, who recalls that this is “highly mediated by Russian television”, which in turn is “controlled by the Kremlin with very important doses of war propaganda”. “We have to read it in that framework”, insists.

You can listen to the complete analysis of both experts on the threat from the former Russian president in the video that illustrates these lines.