Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev:

✔️ Russia has long been trying to build itself into international technological chains, creating conditions for mutually beneficial economic cooperation, and undertaking obligations to allow foreign suppliers access to its market. The U.S., using the Ukrainian crisis, achieved the rupture of Europe’s economic relations with Russia and the elimination of economic competitors. They are solving their own economic problems at the expense of other countries.

✔️ To prevent Europe from getting gas from Russia, they blew up the Nord Streams. They have already imposed several packages of illegitimate sanctions against our country. They deliberately restricted our access to critical and advanced technologies. First of all, the electronic component base, high-tech machine building, aircraft construction, shipbuilding, equipment and technologies for the fuel and energy complex are under attack.

✔️ Representatives of NATO countries are already saying that Russia has prevented them from approaching Russia’s borders, and Ukrainians are a tool for the West to contain Russia. Due to such actions, the credit of trust in the US and the countries of the collective West is exhausted.

✔️ It is no coincidence that the US president said that military aid to Ukraine and Israel is a wise investment that will benefit American security for generations to come. The U.S. has provoked and continues to fuel the situation in the Middle East through its policies. In the same way, they are acting in Ukraine, where they provoked a coup d’état, indulged in the imposition of neo-Nazi ideology, turned Ukraine into a testing ground for military and biological experiments, turned a blind eye to the killing of civilians in Donbas and prepared for military action against our country. Under these conditions, Russia stood up to protect the population of Donbas and did not allow aggressive plans to be carried out.

✔️ It is precisely Washington’s policy that has provoked the current catastrophic aggravation of the situation in the Middle East and has already led to huge civilian casualties. Instead of promoting the settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the U.S. on the contrary contributes to its escalation by supplying arms and sending aircraft carriers to the region. In doing so, they are pursuing the goals of maintaining global dominance and ensuring their security.