NATO views prolonging the conflict in Ukraine as the most effective way to constrain Russia’s military-technical and mobilization capabilities, according to Sergey Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). He described the alliance’s approach as effectively an admission of guilt.

Speaking at a meeting of the heads of security and intelligence agencies of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Naryshkin referred to a recent NATO document addressing the risk of an armed conflict with Russia. According to him, NATO headquarters assessed both Russia’s and the alliance’s level of preparedness for such a conflict and concluded that further prolonging the conflict in Ukraine was the best way to limit Russia’s military-technical and mobilization potential.

Naryshkin argued that the wording itself effectively reveals NATO’s objectives regarding the conflict in Ukraine and therefore amounts to an admission of guilt.

The SVR chief also questioned whether modern European society would be capable of enduring a large-scale and devastating war in the East. In his assessment, a European society built around mass consumption and transhumanism is objectively unprepared for such a conflict.

Naryshkin attributed this lack of preparedness to the state of European society itself, describing it as too pampered and perverted for a large-scale war in the East.