Moscow: 'West walking Hitler's path, trying to dismember Russia'

A senior Russian official has accused the West of plotting to “destroy and dismember” Russia, saying the bloc is walking in the footsteps of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

"Today, the collective West, having revived Nazi ideology, is repeating the path of Hitler and his henchmen, trying to destroy and dismember Russia and deprive the former Soviet republics of independence once and for all,” Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said on Friday.

He made the remarks while addressing the first meeting of the Secretaries of the Security Councils of the Central Asia countries and Russia.

The meeting was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan with top security advisors of the host country as well as Russia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan in participation. 

Patrushev said Russia is interested in maintaining stability in Central Asia and other regions, but the US does not seek to engage in mutually beneficial interaction and instead tries to impose its will on other nations.

“At the same time, equal and mutually beneficial cooperation is not part of the US plans, which continues to impose a so-called order based on rules that they invented. This is done solely in order to ensure their well-being at the expense of other states, even their own allies, whose interests they also do not think to consider."

Putin: West is trying to break Russia up into dozens of different states

Putin has said that the West is trying to drive a wedge between different ethnic and national groups in Russia and break the country up into dozens of different states.

He said the US and its allies triggered the conflict in Ukraine years ago to bring down Russia and dominate the Eurasian territory.

"Washington does not tolerate any strong state, including Russia, which it wants to either dismember or eliminate in order to dominate the Eurasian territory, draining resources. It was for this purpose the Anglo-Saxons unleashed the conflict in Ukraine,” he said.

Russia began its special military operation in Ukraine's neighbor in February 2022.

Moscow says it has launched the operation to protect Ukraine's pro-Russian population in the southern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk against persecution by the Kiev regime. It says it also seeks to "demilitarize and denazify" Ukraine.

Since the start of the war, the US and its Western allies have been providing Kiev with military equipment worth tens of billions of dollars. The supplied arms include rocket systems, drones, tanks and armored vehicles and communication systems as reports also indicate a probable supply of F-16 fighter jets. 

Long-range attack drones have been also added to the list of Western weapons supplied to the Ukrainian forces fighting against Russian troops.

Russia has repeatedly said that the collective Western nations are engaged in a proxy war with Russia over Ukraine, warning that the conflict could escalate into a much bigger fight.

Moscow also insists that Western nations must refrain from the direct military confrontation between the US-led NATO forces and Russian troops.

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