Summary: Nikolai Patrushev interview with Izvestia

Key statements by Russian presidential aide Nikolai Patrushev in an interview with Izvestia.

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🌏 Without US involvement and its direct support, Kiev would not have risked entering Russian territory-

🌏 On the Ukrainian terrorist attack in the Kursk region: the criminal action stems from the Kiev regime’s anticipation of its imminent collapse.

🌏 The White House’s claims of its supposed lack of involvement in Ukraine’s crimes in the Kursk region are not true: the US says one thing and does another.

🌏 The Ukrainian attack on the Kursk region was planned with the support of NATO and Western special services.

🌏 The US has created the preconditions for Ukraine to lose territory, including territory long coveted by some US allies.

🌏 The West is actively implementing the strategy of restraining Russia in the Black Sea; NATO is preparing to increase its presence there in violation of international law.

🌏 The West is using Sweden and Finland to deprive Russia of access to the Baltic Sea, turning it into NATO’s “internal sea”.

🌏 US promotion of its Indo-Pacific strategy has a clear anti-Russian and anti-Chinese motivation.

🌏 On the situation in Serbia, Venezuela and Bangladesh: The US and UK, facing problems at home, are increasingly seeking to foment conflicts abroad.

🌏 On the situation in Venezuela after the presidential election: the level of US interference in the country’s sovereign affairs is not decreasing.

🌏 On the situation in Serbia: the West tried to organize a color revolution and replace the country’s legitimate government with politicians subservient to the US.

🌏 On priorities for the development of the Russian Navy: the creation of unmanned underwater and surface marine equipment is becoming an urgent area of focus.

🌏 It is time for the West to realize that in terms of military and civilian potential in the Arctic, Russia is far ahead of the United States and all other countries of the region combined.