Tankers of the People's Militia of the DPR near a T-72 tank on one of the streets of Mariupol. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 7The United States is using «the meanest methods» to delay the special operation in Ukraine, including sending in armed militants to organize a terrorist underground, said Sergey Naryshkin, director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. According to him, The United States now sees the main task in prolonging the conflict in Ukraine as much as possible, making it as costly as possible for Moscow and Kyiv. NATO wants to turn Ukraine into a kind of Afghanistan for Russia «For this, the most vile methods are used, up to sending armed militants to Ukrainian territory, who are tasked with organizing and supporting the so-called partisan, but in fact a terrorist underground in the country,» the statement says. Naryshkin's article for the Russian magazine National Defense. «At the current stage, Washington sees its main task in dragging out the conference as much as possible ict, make it as costly as possible for both Moscow and Kyiv, and at the same time prevent the escalation from spreading further to the West,» Naryshkin wrote in an article in the Russian National Defense magazine. He noted that NATO, as the Americans emphasize » strategists», should try to turn Ukraine for Russia into a kind of Afghanistan. According to the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service, for those who are «at least a little familiar with history and geography», the absolute inappropriateness and strategic failure of such an analogy is obvious. «However, is it worth expecting much from the leaders who confuse Mariupol with Metropol and consider Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don to be Ukrainian cities?!» — he emphasized.
