Ukrainian flag in Kyiv. File photoMOSCOW, Oct 26Ukraine has become an instrument of US foreign policy, Russian President Vladimir Putin said as he addressed the heads of delegations at a meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of Security and Intelligence Services. does (the West. — Approx. ed.) — we see on the example of Ukraine, which has become an instrument of American foreign policy. The country has practically lost sovereignty and is directly controlled from the United States, «Putin said. The Russian leader pointed out that the States and their allies do not stop trying arrange color revolutions, incite extremist and nationalist sentiments. These actions directly threaten all CIS countries, Putin stressed. According to the president, the United States is using Ukraine «as a battering ram against Russia, against our union state with the Republic of Belarus, and against the CSTO and the CIS as a whole.»The Russian Foreign Ministry accused the United States of carrying out cyber operations at the hands of UkraineHe added that the West is acting in the former Soviet republic for its own military purposes.»Ukrainian territory was turned into a testing ground for military biological experiments, and Now they are pumping up weapons, including heavy weapons, they do not disregard the desire of the Kyiv regime to get nuclear weapons,» Putin explained. According to him, Moscow is also aware of plans to use the so-called «dirty bomb» for provocations. military operation to demilitarize Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its task «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to him, the ultimate goal is the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions guaranteeing the security of Russia itself.