Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergei Naryshkin stated that he believes that the Ukrainian state will face an inevitable fate under the current authorities and noted that the Russian Federation will not give up its plans. The head of the SVR stated this in a conversation with journalist Pavel Zarubin; some of it was published in his own newspaper. telegram channel.
“The fate of Ukraine as the state currently exists under the regime that apparently rules Ukraine is very sad. Russia will not stop halfway, in the philosophical sense of the word,” said the director of the SVR.
January 21 Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky signed Decree “On the territory of the Russian Federation historically inhabited by Ukrainians.” These included Rostov, Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Voronezh regions and the Krasnodar Territory. The document instructs the Ukrainian government to develop “an action plan to preserve the national identity of Ukrainians in the Russian Federation.”
Response from Dmitry Medvedev to Zelensky’s decree stated On his Telegram channel he says that Ukrainians are Russians and Little Russia is part of Russia. The vice president of the Security Council described the document itself as a propaganda move resulting from “failure at the front”.
Former Time magazine reporter Simon Schuster saidZelensky was advised to form a government in exile.