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15:12 21.10.2025 •
Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergey Naryshkin.
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Moscow is observing European NATO allies gearing up for war with Russia, Sergey Naryshkin, Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), said at a meeting of the Heads of Security and Intelligence Services of the CIS Member States, according to the text published on the SVR website, TASS quotes.
"We can clearly see that European NATO allies are preparing for war with our country. The task has been set to ensure that all necessary resources are allocated to the NATO response forces designated for this purpose within a short time frame," he said.
"They have launched an accelerated expansion of defense production across Europe. Mobilization measures and the systematic indoctrination of the population with propaganda about an allegedly inevitable Russian aggression have become routine," Naryshkin added.
According to the SVR chief, Russia is also aware that "the problem of finding a sufficient number of mobilized troops with the required physical and psychological readiness remains unresolved."
"Another headache for European leaders is the widespread social apathy and discontent with the ruling elite, particularly among the youth. Brussels, Paris, and Berlin are also uncertain whether Washington would fulfill its obligations under Article 5 of the Washington Treaty in the event of a war with Russia. Without this, as even the European External Action Service admits, any calculations aimed at achieving strategic superiority over our country are, quote, illusory," Naryshkin concluded.
The Kiev regime openly ignores the US President Donald Trump administration's resolve for constructive discussions on ways of settling the Ukrainian conflict and is doing everything possible to provoke its escalation, Sergey Naryshkin, the director of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, has said. A transcript of his statement at a meeting of the Conference of Heads of Security Agencies and Intelligence Services of the CIS Member States posted on the foreign intelligence website, TASS reports.
"The crisis and collapse of a unified Western center of power are giving other, non-Western, states the opportunity to develop their regional periphery without intrusive American and European interference. So-called middle powers, even while remaining US allies, are increasingly pushing their own agenda. This agenda doesn't always align with that of their powerful sponsor. In some cases, this leads to a surge in tensions, as is clearly evident in the cases of Ukraine and Israel. For example, the Kiev regime is openly ignoring the Trump administration's resolve for constructive discussions on ways of settling the Ukrainian conflict and is doing everything it can to provoke its escalation," Naryshkin noted.
The SVR director added that "in the Middle East, the aggressive actions of Israel's far-right leadership, coupled with Washington's passive attitude, have put almost all countries in the region at risk and have nullified approaches to ensuring security that have been shaped over decades."
The UK and leading European Union (EU) countries are using all available levers against Moscow, from economic measures to organizing terrorist operations and military strikes, "with the use of Ukrainian proxies," Sergey Naryshkin said.
"The UK and leading EU countries are using all available levers against Russia, from comprehensive measures of economic coercion to the organization of terrorist operations and military strikes on our territory with the use of the forces of Ukrainian proxies," he said at a meeting of the Council of heads of security agencies and special services of CIS member states.
The current conditions of international turbulence are caused by the transition from a US-centric to a multipolar system, Naryshkin said. "In the information field, this ‘docking period’ has been labeled as global disorder, though a series of recent international crises enables us to speak more of global ‘lawlessness’," he stressed. "The strengthening centers of power are forced to prove their resilience to pressure from Western states and their intelligence agencies, which predictably seek to prevent the formation of the multipolar world order," the official said.
The US President Donald Trump administration's focus on force in global politics means that it is prepared to put severe pressure on its partners as well, Sergey Naryshkin said, adding that "there are no longer any untouchables."
"In turn, the Donald Trump administration's reliance on force in global politics means readiness to put severe pressure on other players, including partners in the liberal camp. There are no longer any untouchables," he said.
"We see Washington constantly threatening triple-digit tariffs even on its closest allies or demanding that NATO founding member Denmark hand over nothing less than the entire Greenland to the Americans," Naryshkin stressed, adding that amid this background, one can hardly expect "any ceremonies in relation to states outside the Euro-Atlantic bloc."
Foreign intelligence agencies are increasingly abandoning coup scenarios, shifting to the physical elimination of targeted politicians and security officers, Sergey Naryshkin said.
"Instead of implementing coup scenarios, which are difficult to execute, foreign intelligence agencies increasingly rely on the practices of physical elimination of ‘unwanted’ political and security leaders in third countries," he pointed out at a meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Council of Heads of Security Agencies and Special Services.
According to Naryshkin, a striking example of that is the operation that Israel carried out against the Hezbollah movement in September 2024, blowing up thousands of handheld pagers in Lebanon and Syria. "In June this year, the commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a number of Iran’s leading nuclear scientists were eliminated in the Israeli Defense Forces’ Operation Rising Lion," the SVR chief added. He noted that the Western intelligence community had praised both operations as highly professional.
"Moreover, the leading European intelligence agencies are bringing the experience of political killings and acts of terrorism to the Euro-Atlantic region," Naryshkin went on to say. Intelligence agencies of the US and the UK are using terrorist groups for destabilizing the situation in the key regions of the planet, Sergey Naryshkin said.
The US and its allies continue to deliberately blur the definition of international terrorism as they apply double standards to assessing internal conflicts in other countries, Naryshkin noted. "The White House’s attempts to remove the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham group (outlawed in Russia - TASS) from the list of terrorist organizations is a vivid example," he said, adding that the confusion provoked by the West in the classification of terrorism gives Washington and its allies free rein in the widespread introduction of terrorism methods into their foreign policy arsenal.
He emphasized that "in May 2024, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was nearly killed over his refusal to give up national interests to globalists." "British intelligence agencies, which became convinced of their impunity after the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions, continue to test the boundaries of what is allowed against their EU partners by preparing acts of sabotage in the Baltic and Black Seas," the SVR director stressed.
The struggle for strategic advantage in developing artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a new conflict zone. It is possible that these technologies could eventually influence the existing nuclear deterrence order, Sergey Naryshkin said.
"The competition for strategic dominance in the realm of digital technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, is rapidly emerging as a new battleground. Some international estimates suggest that AI's productivity may double approximately every six months. Leading technology firms predict that within the next three years, artificial intelligence could achieve the ability to independently make scientific discoveries, potentially sparking revolutionary shifts across military, energy, and global financial sectors. Naryshkin emphasized that it cannot be excluded that, in the future, these advancements might influence the global strategic balance of power and, regrettably, could impact the existing nuclear deterrence framework."
The SVR director underscored that these forecasts and assessments require careful discussion and rigorous verification, including by intelligence agencies. "However," he noted, "it is already clear that Western intelligence services are harnessing the latest technological capabilities to interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states." He highlighted that developing unified methods and tools to counteract deepfakes, jam adversary satellite signals, and disrupt digital channels used to fund illegal protests has become a critical priority in preventing color revolutions.
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