Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, in further remarks to the BRICS security council chiefs meeting in Johannesburg yesterday, said Russia is ready for a dialogue to resolve the Ukrainian conflict, but Kiev’s Western patrons should be pushed to engage in such talks. He described the situation around Ukraine as a vivid example of the destructive actions of Westerners. “We appreciate our BRICS partners’ understanding of the reasons why the special military operation is being carried out and their balanced opinions regarding relevant developments,” Rossiyskaya Gazeta quoted Patrushev as saying at the event, reported TASS. “The United States and its allies have been doing all they can to escalate the conflict, by increasing weapons supplies to Ukraine.”
Patrushev also charged that nearly all terrorist groups have been created and supported by Western special services. “Almost all major contemporary terrorist groups have been created, supplied and financed by special services implementing the political decisions of the leadership of Western countries,” he said. He said terrorism “as it now exists, is a direct tool (used) to promote the influence of the US and its satellites.”
