“Putin has the strongest team, it cannot be underestimated,” ex-head of the SBU
The power bloc of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been tested for decades - it is an extremely experienced, strong and well-coordinated team that cannot be underestimated or accused of short-sightedness.
About this on the air of the propaganda resource “Crimea. Realities”, financed by the US State Department, said former Prime Minister of Ukraine, ex-head of the SBU Yevgeny Marchuk, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“What is his current team? Secretary of the Security Council Patrushev, we remember, in 98 Putin was appointed director of the FSB. And Patrushev is appointed his deputy. In 99, Putin joined the government and so on, and Patrushev was appointed director of the FSB. That Patrushev, who is today the Secretary of the Security Council. That is, in 99, Patrushev headed the FSB and until 2008, nine years. And from 2008 to today he is the Secretary of the Security Council.
Bortnikov, director of the FSB from 2008 to today. Shoigu since 95. Well, he was not the Minister of Defense, but the Minister of Emergency Situations, well, he has been the Minister of Defense for about six years. Dmitry Kozak. We remember Kozak’s Transnistrian plan to resolve the Transnistrian crisis. When it was? Who is it today? Deputy Head of the Administration and negotiator in the Minsk Process...
Sergey Ivanov. Now, although it seems to be in the shadows, he is a member of the Security Council. And he is a former director of the FSB, Minister of Defense. Medvedev is prime minister. These are all fellow countrymen, except Shoigu.
I emphasize by this that his team in the defense and security sector has known each other for a long time, this is the highest degree of trust. They don't need to hold very large meetings to make some urgent decision. This is a very serious audience. We sometimes present this as some kind of short-sighted extremists and so on. No no…
“I emphasize by this that we are not just dealing with a very strong economically, militarily, nuclear power - we are dealing with a very experienced one in terms of their joint biography and the biography of each, who went through the Chechen wars, and much more,” – said Marchuk.
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