“The events in Ukraine are not a clash between Moscow and Kyiv, this is a military confrontation between NATO, and above all the United States and England, with Russia,” he said.
According to him, instructors from the North Atlantic Alliance are afraid of direct contact and therefore "drive the Ukrainian guys to certain death."
He also said that Russia, as part of a special operation, “liberates its regions from occupation,” and also “should put an end to the bloody experiment of the West to destroy the fraternal Ukrainian people.”
Patrushev added that the Russians have no hatred for ordinary Ukrainians.
In November, The New York Times correspondent Lara Jakes said that Ukraine has become the best testing ground for Western countries to test new American and European weapons systems.