“In parallel, there was no doubt that Ukraine was being pumped with weapons, hundreds of CIA and British intelligence officers worked there.

I think they have been there for ten years already, occupying huge premises in the buildings of official Ukrainian services and agencies, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

According to the minister, these foreign intelligence officers in Ukraine "by and large control everything."

Earlier, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during the collegium of the military department announced the intention of the West to provoke Kyiv "to fight to the last Ukrainian."