Sergey Naryshkin, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation
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Sergey Naryshkin is a Russian statesman, director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia since October 5, 2016.
A few months before the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, he had assured that nothing like this would happen. He called all reports about the threat of malicious propaganda from the US State Department.
He called the Ukrainian government Russophobic, corrupt and oligarchic. After the start of the full-scale invasion, he justified Russian aggression by saying that “Russia wanted to prevent a great tragedy in the future.”
Later, he declared that it was “the totalitarian-liberal West trying to impose a global war on all mankind.”
*The material was created in cooperation with the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
Main statements
1. After the start of the invasion of Ukraine, he stated that the Russian Federation simply did not have a chance to learn otherwise (March 16, 2022)
He justified the war against Ukraine with the necessity to “prevent a great tragedy in the future.” He said that the Russian Federation had no choice, and Putin decided to start hostilities “after a deep assessment of the situation in the world.”
2. He called Ukraine an “obedient tool” in the hands of the West (October 10, 2022)
Naryshkin said that Ukraine had allegedly “turned into a fascist dictatorship” and was ruled by the totalitarian-liberal regimes of the West.
3. He stated that Poland was allegedly preparing to annex territories in Western Ukraine (November 30, 2022)
