The Ukrainian crisis was the result of the activity of the USA and the EU, said Patrushev
The U.S. and the European Union Last 25 years been preparing a systemic crisis on Ukraine to " separate " it from the Russian Federation, said the FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev in an interview to " Rossiyskaya Gazeta ", which will be released this Wednesday.
" The Ukrainian crisis has become quite an expected result of systemic activity of the U.S. and its closest allies. The last quarter of a century, this activity was aimed at a complete separation of the Ukraine and other former Soviet republics from Russia, total reformatting of the post-Soviet space under the American desire. Created the rules and the reasons for color revolutions that were provided generous state funding, " he said.
Patrushev said that the assistant Secretary of state for Europe and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland has stated many times about the fact that Washington between 1991 and 2013 has spent 5 billion dollars to " support the aspirations of the people of Ukraine by no less strong, democratic government ".
" for information just open sources, for example, documents of the U.S. Congress, the total amount of the state payment of various American programs " help " of Ukraine for the period from 2001 to 2012 amounted to More than 2, 4 billion. This is comparable to the annual budget of the part of small countries, " said Patrushev.
in addition, the Director of the FSB called and other amounts that are spent in different U.S. agencies on the independence of Ukraine for the Last 25 years: the United States Agency for international development spent about 1, 5 billion dollars, the state Department - billion, the U.S. Department of defense - not less than us $ 370 million.