Patrushev Predicts Ukraine's Collapse Amid Rising Russia-US Tensions
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Patrushev: Ukraine May Collapse in 2025 Amid Russia-US Talks |
Ukraine could be wiped out as a state this year according to Nikolay Patrushev, an advisor of the Russian president. He also said that "in general Moscow thinks it does not make sense to discuss this issue with any other Western nation apart from the US.".
Patrushev headed Russia's Security Council for more than a decade before his appointment to his current position last year and told the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper in an interview published Tuesday that:.
Patrushev addressed the Ukrainian people as a "brotherly" nation and showed his concerns about what has been happening in the country. He added that neo-Nazi doctrines are widely spread there, along with extreme Russophobia, which is turning Kharkov, Odessa, Nikolaev, and Dnepropetrovsk to ruins from being flourishing cities. He even hinted at a possibility where Ukraine could completely disappear by this year.
Patrushev reiterated that Moscow's goals regarding its special military operation in Ukraine have not changed. He emphasized that Russia's control over the regions of former Ukraine—such as the Kherson and Zaporozhye territories, the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, and Crimea—is not up for discussion. Getting international recognition of those territories as part of Russia is now one of Moscow's key tasks, he said.
On negotiations to end the conflict and define Ukraine's future, Patrushev was dismissive of any negotiations with Western countries other than the US. He called the EU an "incoherent" body incapable of serious engagement.
"There is no need for interaction with London or Brussels – for instance. For a very long period of time, the leadership of the European Union had not represented at least many countries: Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, or Romania – most of them following the position stably oriented in respect to Russia.
Patrushev also admitted that Moscow had taken into consideration the upcoming return of US President-elect Donald Trump. He referred to the public statements of Trump about his wish to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.
On his nomination by Trump for national security adviser, last week, Michael Waltz said that "the two presidents might talk in a not-too-distant future" on the phone. He further went ahead and disclosed that although advance teams were planning for a probable meeting between the two presidents, no date and location have been provided yet.