Sergey Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service: Risks and threats from Western countries have significantly increased

Sergey Naryshkin
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Key statements by Sergey Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), 7 oct., 2024.

‘Sputnik’ quotes:

Global affairs

• Risks and threats from Western countries have significantly increased, although Russia has never wished them any harm.
• In an attempt to maintain aggressive dominance in the modern world, Western countries are focusing their efforts on the post-Soviet space.
• Russia is currently facing an unprecedented terrorist threat emanating from a group of states.

Ukraine

• Ukraine and its Western handlers have launched a full-scale terrorist war against Russia and its people.
• Unable to achieve strategic success, the Zelensky regime is carrying out terrorist attacks in Russia to destabilize society.
• The US and NATO are actively supporting the Kiev’s criminal actions and bear equal responsibility for the loss of life and destruction of Russian infrastructure.
• According to SVR data, US intelligence has been providing Kiev with information for strikes on Russian civilian infrastructure since the beginning of the conflict.
• US reconnaissance satellites have significantly increased high-resolution surveillance over Russian territories bordering Ukraine since March 2024.
• US satellites have been particularly focused on monitoring the situation in the Kursk and Belgorod regions.
• The SVR has information that the plan of the terrorist attack on the Kursk region included the seizure and mining of the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant.
• If Kiev had succeeded in capturing the Kursk Nuclear Plant, Europe would have faced an environmental and humanitarian disaster comparable to Chernobyl.
• SVR data indicates that Western intelligence services, particularly Britain’s MI6, have been preparing Ukrainian sabotage groups for provocations at several nuclear power plants in Russia.
• MI6 and Ukraine’s military intelligence (GUR) have been developing a plan to sabotage power lines connecting Russian nuclear power plants to the national energy grid.
• Reliable data shows that NATO intelligence services are transferring militants from the Middle East to the special military operation (SMO) zone to fight on Kiev’s side.
• The SVR has recorded numerous contacts in Syria between Ukrainian GUR emissaries and leaders of illegal armed groups and terrorist organizations.
• Kiev’s goal in contacting terrorist leaders in Syria is to carry out sabotage operations and attacks on Russian targets in Syria and to recruit mercenaries for Ukraine's forces.
• As "payment" for the militants, Kiev is supplying terrorists with combat and reconnaissance drones as well as ammunition.
• Since July 2024, a group of Ukrainian GUR officers has been stationed at the US Al-Tanf base, working on plans to attack Russian and Syrian military targets.
• US and British intelligence services are facilitating Kiev’s negotiations with militants in Syria, with the silent approval of Turkiye’s occupation administration in Idlib.
• There is information suggesting that after the Ukraine conflict ends, these militants are expected to be used to destabilize the Eurasia region.
• By fueling the Kiev regime with jihadists and weapons, the US and Britain are steadily on the path to becoming state sponsors of terrorism.
• The US and Britain will be held accountable for arming the Kiev regime with jihadists and weapons.

Nord Stream

• The course of the investigation into the Nord Stream explosions offers little hope that the true culprits will be identified and punished.
• The SVR has reliable information about the direct involvement of the US and Britain in the Nord Stream blasts.
• Data shows that professional saboteurs from Anglo-Saxon intelligence services were involved in the Nord Stream explosions.
• The US administration considered it justified to destroy Nord Stream to ensure that Europe, especially Germany, breaks away from Russia.
• The US was unsure whether they could convince Europe to abandon the highly beneficial Nord Stream project, so they resorted to sabotage.

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