Moscow isn’t happy to lose Brussels as a strategic partner but must accept this new reality, the former president has said  Russia and the European Union are now “true enemies” rather than neighbors, according to former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

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The West’s populations must be ready for years of “hardship,” a UK general has said Western nations should prepare their peoples for a long-term drop in living standards if their standoff with Russia continues, the Britain’s former Assistant Chief of Defence Staff, Jonathan Shaw, has said.