Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that the West is trying to sow discord among various ethnic groups and national groups in Russia and split the Russian Federation into dozens of different states. He also said that the sanctions with which the West hits Russia strengthen the unity of Russian society.

Earlier today, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said the US was coordinating with Ukraine over the killing of two pro-war nationalists in Russia and attacks on critical national infrastructure in an attempt to undermine stability within Russia’s borders.

Daria Dugina, the daughter of a prominent Russian nationalist, died in a car bomb attack in August, war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, whose real name is Maxim Fomin, was killed in a bomb blast last month, and nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin was wounded in a bomb blast early on. this month.

Russia also blamed Ukraine for the attack on the Crimean Bridge last October, and also accused the West of involvement in the Nord Stream gas pipeline bombings in September.

Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev told the TASS news agency today that all the attacks were “planned and carried out under the coordination of American intelligence agencies.”

“The terrorist attacks committed in Russia were accompanied by an information campaign prepared in advance in Washington and London aimed at destabilizing the socio-political situation and undermining the institutional foundations and sovereignty of Russia,” Patrushev said, TASS reports.

Source: APE-MPE, Reuters.