"We’re not chasing deadlines": Chairman of the Russian Security Council on Putin's goals and the war in Ukraine

OLENA ROSHCHINA – TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2022, 12:15

Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev said that Russia does not impose time limits on itself with regards to the war against Ukraine, that NATO countries are allegedly interested in a protracted war, and that Russia has the right to demand "reparations".

Source: Nikolai Patrushev in an interview with Russian newspaper Argumenty i fakty.

Quote: "We’re not chasing deadlines. Nazism must either be eradicated 100%, or it will raise its head again in a few years, in an even uglier form.

All the goals set by the President of Russia will be reached. It can't be otherwise, because the truth, especially historical truth, is on our side."

Details: Patrushev, referring to the words of General Skobelev (1843-1882), claimed that Russia allows itself the luxury of "fighting out of compassion".

The Secretary of the Russian Security Council hypocritically gave assurances that "the fate of Ukraine will be determined by the people living on its territory," and claimed that Russia had "never controlled the fate of sovereign states".

In response to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's statement that Russia should pay reparations to Ukraine, Patrushev retorted: "It is Russia that has the right to demand reparations from the countries that sponsored the Nazis in Ukraine and the criminal regime in Kyiv."

The head of the Russian Security Council does not admit that the Russians are guilty of murdering Ukrainians and destroying their cities, but claims that the residents of the CADLR and the entire Ukrainian people deserve "reparations from the main instigators of the conflict: the United States and Great Britain."

Patrushev stated that "the current leadership of Kyiv authorities by NATO has led to a catastrophic scenario."

Quote: "If Ukraine had remained independent and had not been guided by the current puppet regime obsessed with joining NATO and the EU, it would have expelled all Nazi evil from its country long ago.

Meanwhile, an endless smouldering conflict in the country seems to be an ideal scenario for the entire North Atlantic Alliance, led by the United States. Ukraine is needed by the West to serve as a counterweight to Russia, and as a landfill for the disposal of obsolete weapons.

By heating up military hostilities, the United States is again pumping money into its defence and industrial sectors, as in the wars of the twentieth century, remaining victorious. At the same time, the population of Ukraine is considered by the United States as a consumable that has no place in the same ‘golden billion’."

Details: Patrushev claims that NATO is "not a defensive, but an aggressive, offensive military alliance", and that Finland and Sweden are now being "pushed into a risky venture".

He reported that if the alliance's military infrastructure were expanded in Finland and Sweden, Russia "will perceive this as a direct threat to its own security and will be obliged to respond."