MOSCOW (Realist English). Director of the SVR (The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation) Sergey Naryshkin believes that Russia’s fate and her future place in the world is being decided in Ukraine.
“Our country is now experiencing a truly historic moment. The fate of Russia and its future place in the world is being decided. Sovereignty has been and remains the main factor in Russia’s development, the core of its thousand-year history. The right to independently, freely and consciously determine her own fate. Sovereignty is a guarantee of the well-being and dignity of our citizens, it is the future of our children. In such matters, Russia has never retreated and will not retreat, because otherwise it will cease to be Russia,” at the expert council on historical education in the Ministry of Education and Science,” said the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin at the Expert Council on Historical Education in the Ministry of Education and Science.
According to the director of the SVR, the decision to launch a special operation in the Ukraine was based on an extremely accurate assessment of the situation in the world. He added that the slightest delay in relation to the “Russophobic Kiev regime” would turn into a great tragedy in the near future.
On March 10, the head of Rostech State Corporation, Sergey Chemezov, said that the special military operation in Ukraine was a forced measure that prevented military actions on the territory of Russia.
“We live in a difficult time, but what happened is a forced measure that we had to take. And the military operation that began, it allowed, first of all, to destroy those combat formations that were prepared, those weapons, those ammunition depots that were prepared for the attack initially, of course, on the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, and then, of course, on Russia. And if we had not done this, then today all military actions would have taken place on our territory, and not only military personnel, but also the civilian population, our compatriots, would have died,” he said during a meeting with the staff of the state corporation.
On the morning of February 24, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin announced the start of a special military operation of the Russian Military Forces in the Ukraine. The special operation forestalled and thwarted a large-scale offensive by the shock groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, which are not controlled by the Kiev regime, in March of this year.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 111 Ukrainian aircraft, 68 helicopters, 160 unmanned aerial vehicles, 159 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,353 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 129 multiple rocket launchers, 493 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 1,096 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
