He said this during a speech at a meeting of Security Council secretaries on Afghan issues in Bishkek.

Patrushev called the Ukrainian conflict the most striking example of the aggravation of the situation in the world due to the policies of the West. 

“Through the hands of which (Ukraine. -

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) the global West wanted to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. But it didn’t work out for him,” he emphasized.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Western states began to understand that it was impossible to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.