Russia’s Security Council Secretary Mykola Patrushev has said that Ukraine is moving towards disintegration into several states due to US attempts to use Kyiv to counter Russia, Reuters reports.
“Using their proxies in Kyiv, the Americans decided, trying to suppress Russia, to create an antipode to our country, cynically choosing Ukraine for this, trying to essentially divide a single nation,” Patrushev said in an interview with the newspaper. “Russian newspaper”.
According to him, the United States has been trying for years to instill in Ukrainians hatred for everything Russian. “But history teaches that hatred can never be a reliable factor in national unification,” he said.
“If there is one thing that unites people living in Ukraine today, it is only the fear of the atrocities of nationalist battalions,” Patrushev said. According to him, “the result of such a policy of the West and the regime in Kyiv can only be the disintegration of Ukraine into several states,” BTA reports.