Ukraine Conflict
Moscow launched a special military operation in Ukraine in February 2022 with the aim of saving the people of Donbass - primarily the Russian-speaking population - from Kiev's constant attacks.

Ukraine to Exhaust Mobilisation Potential Within a Year: Russian Intel Chief

© Sputnik / Mikhail KlimentyevRussian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergey Naryshkin attends a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with members of the Security Council at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia
Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergey Naryshkin attends a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with members of the Security Council at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia - Sputnik India, 1920, 04.09.2026
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Ukraine's available mobilisation potential will be nearly exhausted within a year, said Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergei Naryshkin.

"Europe is too soft and unprepared for a large‑scale, devastating war with Russia, which is why Western politicians are using the myth of a threat from the East," said Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin.

West Views Post-Soviet Space as Buffer Against Russia, China

The West views the former Soviet states as a buffer against Russia and China that is crucial to inflicting a strategic defeat on its rivals, said Naryshkin.
"As for the post-Soviet space as a whole, Western intelligence documents describe it primarily as an arena of confrontation between the West and new centers of power. In other words, Europeans deny the countries of the region genuine geopolitical subjectivity, seeing in them essentially a buffer zone, control over which would allow them to inflict a strategic defeat on their existential opponents – Russia and China," Naryshkin said at a meeting of security and intelligence chiefs of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) near St. Petersburg.
The old world order in the form of a "United Europe" does not want to yield to multipolarity in the form of the Eurasian Economic Union, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and CIS, Naryshkin added.
Instead of focusing efforts on solving internal problems, such as economic stagnation, deindustrialization, energy and migration crises and excessive dependence on the United States for defense and policymaking, European leaders have opted for deeper relations with sovereign Eurasian powers, he concluded.
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