Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 26The peoples living in Ukraine are now united only by fear of the atrocities of nationalist battalions, so the result of the policy of the West and the Kyiv regime under its control can only be the disintegration of this country into several states, the secretary said Council of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolay Patrushev. «In an attempt to suppress Russia, the Americans, using their proteges in Kyiv, decided to create an antipode of our country, cynically choosing Ukraine for this, trying to divide an essentially single people. Not finding any positive basis in order to attract Ukrainians to its side, long before the 2014 coup d'état, Washington instilled in Ukrainians the exclusivity of their nation and hatred for everything Russian,» Patrushev said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta. » /> The peoples in Ukraine are united only by the fear of the national battalions, Patrushev said. However, history teaches that hatred can never become be a reliable factor in national unity, Patrushev added. Therefore, the result of the policy of the West and the Kyiv regime under its control can only be the disintegration of Ukraine into several states,» the Secretary of the Security Council said.