Patrushev: The West failed to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia in Ukraine. He said this during a speech at a meeting of Security Council secretaries on Afghan issues in Bishkek.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Western states began to understand that it was impossible to inflicted a strategic Defeat on Russia. The Ukrainian conflict is the most striking example of the aggravation of the situation in the world due to the policies of the West, Patrusheva said. He emphasized that through the hands of which (Ukraine. - RT ) the global West wanted to inflict A strategic defeat. But it didn't work out for him.