According to the press service of the Security Council apparatus, Patrushev stated this in Tashkent at the 17th annual meeting of the secretaries of the Security Councils of the countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
“The events around Ukraine show that Westerners are trying to balance on the verge between hybrid actions and an open armed conflict with our country, for which they do not stop preparing,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
Earlier, the head of the international relations department of the Italian Communist Party, Alberto Lombardo, said that the Italian government had dragged the country into the conflict in Ukraine by deciding to supply weapons to Kyiv.