Nikolai Patrushev in an interview with MK spoke out in favor of “thanking the USA for Crimea”
After that, Patrushev was asked about when the confrontation between Russia and the West would end? And when the secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation answered that it was not Russia that started the confrontation, the journalist "MK" he immediately declared the following:
Nikolai Patrushev gave a very elegant answer to this frankly provocative question, stating that Crimea is not a Russian initiative either, and he offered to thank the United States for the reunification of Crimea and Sevastopol with Russia, which started the anti-constitutional coup in Ukraine.
From an interview with Nikolai Patrushev:
The Russian Security Council secretary also answered the question about the “appropriateness” of Russia's participation in the counter-terrorist operation in Syria. According to Patrushev, terrorist groups operating in Syria threaten many countries of the world, including Russia, and therefore the participation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in this operation is the defense of Russian security interests.
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