Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolay Patrushev voiced another " He is convinced that the war was a " Patrushev stated this at a meeting of the scientific council under the Security Council of the Russian Federation, according to Russian media..

" A special military operation frustrated these plans,"

He added that Russia was forced to preventively resort to an invasion of Ukraine, because "

At the same time, Patrushev did not explain how Ukraine threatened the existence of Russia..

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The National Security and Defense Council proposed to impose sanctions against Putin, Peskov, Lavrov, Shoigu, Patrushev.

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Earlier it was reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin made the decision to attack Ukraine in February 2022 in a narrow circle, but the limited information received led to miscalculations in the early days of the invasion.. Bloomberg, citing Putin's cordon off, notes that the president of the aggressor country was determined to continue the war in Ukraine, despite the failure of the plan to quickly seize the country.. In Putin's eyes, reducing Moscow's ambitions would make it "