MADRID Jan. 14 () –
Nikolai Patrushev, advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, believes that by next year Ukraine will “completely cease to exist” and has assured that negotiations on Ukraine should be an issue that concerns exclusively Russia and the United States. “There is nothing to talk about with London or Brussels,” he said.
“It is possible that next year Ukraine will cease to exist completely,” said Patrushev, one of President Putin’s trusted men and one of the few who has remained with him since his beginnings as KGB agents.
Patrushev has reaffirmed that kyiv’s demands for the recovery of its territories “are not even discussed” and has stressed that “the world recognizes the entry into Russia” of the regions of Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea.
“They are an integral part of our country,” he said in an interview for the newspaper ‘Komsomolskaya Pravda’, based on “Russian laws” and the “result of popular expression of citizens”, in reference to the annexation referendums. September 2022 that were widely rejected by the global community.
At the same time, he wanted to emphasize that the Ukrainian people maintain close and “centuries-old” ties with the Russian people despite, he said, the efforts that kyiv has dedicated to its anti-Russian propaganda and its “obsession” with ‘Ukrainianness’.
Faced with the possibility of entering into a negotiation, Patrushev has said that only the United States and Russia are qualified to sit at the table, since the EU “has long since no longer had the right to speak on behalf of many of its members.”
Thus, he pointed out that countries such as Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Romania and some others “are interested in the stability of Europe” and therefore “adopt a balanced position towards Russia.”
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