Patrushev said the inability to prevent the influx of Russians in the militia DNI – RBC

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev

Photo: RIA Novosti

Russia “does not call for or encourage” prosoedinenie volunteer militia to the Donbass, but “really impossible to prevent this,” Patrushev said in an interview with “Kommersant”. He noted that refugees from Ukraine told “family and friends” about “atrocities that take place there”, then under the influence of emotions people go to the Donbas and participate in the fighting.

Patrushev said that to close the border with Ukraine, Russia can not. “What do we organize the blockade, as it was in Leningrad? For the entire population of Donbass? We practically feed them now, there have living conditions are extremely difficult, “- he said.

The Secretary of the Security Council stressed that what is happening right now in the east of Ukraine – a” civil conflict “, which is to interfere in Russia it would be “inappropriate».

According to Patrushev, the initiators of the conflict in the east of Ukraine are the United States. At the same time, as the Secretary of the Security Council, US President Barack Obama, saying that Washington has acted as mediator in the change of power in Ukraine, he admitted that the conflict in Ukraine was initiated by the American side. Patrushev, citing the words of a representative of the US State Department Victoria Nuland also said the United States spent on the change of power in Ukraine $ 5 billion [this amount, according to Nuland, the US has been spent since 1991 on the development of democratic institutions in Ukraine]. It was a change of government, according to the Secretary of Security Council of Russia, was the impetus for the conflict in the east of the country.

In the “destabilization of the project” Ukraine Patrushev sees attempts to “create a tool for the radical weakening of Russia».

In April Patrushev at the meeting of the Security Councils of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization accused the Western countries that they want to “make Ukrainian agrarian country».

The fact that the perpetrators of the crisis in Ukraine, the United States, has repeatedly said the Russian president Vladimir Putin. In particular, speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin said that the cause of the crisis in Ukraine was the decision to develop the United States’ geopolitical space available. ”