Patrushev calls east Ukraine ceasefire 'fragile'
MOSCOW. May 26 (Interfax) - Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev has described the ceasefire currently in place in Ukraine's eastern regions as 'fragile'.
"All of us perfectly understand who stood behind the events in Ukraine, which has been pushed into the chaos of civil war. A fragile truce has been secured there today," Patrushev told the fifth meeting of high-ranking security officials from BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries in Moscow on Tuesday.
"Already today [Ukraine] has effectively been turned into an agrarian appendage for the West," he said.
"Regrettably, despite our efforts, the world is now witnessing an upsurge of forces that seek to degrade countries to the level of raw material appendages by using their military strength, 'color revolution' technologies and unilateral economic sanctions that circumvent international law," the Russian official said.
"Ideologists of such bloody events do not care about the economic restoration of these countries. Rather, acting under the pretext of extending financial aid, they gradually remove all barriers and pave the way for unhindered access of Western capital," Patrushev said.
"Furthermore, they take advantage of social, economic, ethnic and cultural disputes inside individual states to destabilize the situation there," he added.
