NATO countries a party to Ukraine conflict: Russia’s Patrushev

MOSCOW: The secretary of Russia’s Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, said that NATO countries are a party to the conflict in Ukraine, according to excerpts from an interview with Russian government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Monday.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta cited Patrushev as saying: “In fact, NATO countries are a party to the conflict.

They made Ukraine one big military camp. They send weapons and ammunition to the Ukrainian troops, provide them with intelligence“.

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Patrushev, a former chief of the FSB internal security service, is widely seen as one of the most hawkish members of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle.