Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said on Tuesday that Russia is now fighting NATO, not Ukraine in the ongoing conflict.
“The events in Ukraine are not a clash between Moscow and Kyiv – this is a military confrontation between Russia and NATO, and above all the United States and Britain,” Al Jazeera reported quoting Patrushev.
Nikolai Patrushev accused the West of trying to pull Russia apart, and eventually erase Russia from the world map. Patrushev also accused the US pulled out of Afghanistan to focus its efforts on Ukraine.
Patrushev said America’s presence in Afghanistan was not the result of combating terrorism but instead generated billion-dollar corruption schemes and skyrocketing drug production, Russian news agency TASS reported. Patrushev said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s statement confirmed the allegations. “Equipment withdrawn from Afghanistan was relocated to Europe, mostly to Poland, which made it possible for the Europeans to militarize the Kyiv regime," TASS reported quoting Patrushev.
He also alleged that US created terror organisations like Al-Qaeda and Islamic State to fulfil its goals. "While making a show of killing some terrorist leaders like Osama bin Laden, they trained and armed hundreds of others," Patrushev was quoted as saying.
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that NATO and US have now become de facto parties of the Ukraine war.
