As he stated during a videoconference at the 11th Annual Meeting of High Representatives of the BRICS States Responsible for Security Issues, the trend of imposing alien ideals on the peoples of unification, "passed off as so-called universal democratic values," is alarming.

“How viable are the regimes that the West is trying to build around the world on their basis, we saw just a week ago in Afghanistan,” TASS quotes him.

Earlier, Patrushev had a telephone conversation with US Assistant to the President for National Security Jake Sullivan, during which they discussed the situation in Afghanistan.