“The subversive activities of the United States against the Bolivarian Republic continues. Various options are being developed for shifting the “chavist” government - from creating conditions for the growth of protest moods with their subsequent transformation into a “social explosion” to the implementation of force scenarios for Caracas, ”he said during the Moscow Conference on International Security. His words leads RIA News.

According to Kostyukov, Washington, "fearing to use national armed forces," wants to organize an invasion with the hands of allies, in particular Colombia.

Earlier, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, said that Russia sees signs of the preparation of the United States for a military operation against the Bolivarian Republic.