Russia's chief intelligence officer sees signs of improvement in relations with Ukraine
The head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of Russia, Sergei Naryshkin, believes that in relations between Moscow and Kyiv “there are slight signs of improvement, but a lot depends on the Ukrainian authorities,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He stated this today following a meeting of the heads of security agencies and intelligence services of the CIS member states, the TASS agency reports.
“Some, perhaps, the first signs are being revealed, but much depends on the readiness and ability of the new Kyiv government to act decisively, to overcome the resistance of the so-called war party. We understand that it is quite difficult for the new government to do this,” he said.
Naryshkin noted that “political partners on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean” also play a negative and destructive role. “Nevertheless, such cautious optimism may exist. Very discreet,” he concluded.
Earlier, the chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs said in a conversation with a TASS correspondent that the refusal of the Ukrainian delegation to participate in the upcoming autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) “looks like a demarche and blackmail, this is a situation like out of spite, I’ll freeze my mother’s ears.” Affairs Leonid Slutsky.
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