MOSCOW. Feb 11 (Interfax) - The west cannot help Ukraine; moreover, it could destroy its economy, says Nikolai Patrushev, Russia's Security Council Secretary.
"I suppose, eventually the West will deadlock the Ukrainian economy. The aid being sent to Kyiv cannot lead to any practical results," he said in an interview to be published in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Wednesday.
"No one is going to actually do something about raising living standards in Ukraine or employ its young people in Europe. There, they themselves struggle to deal with quite serious threats and challenges," Patrushev said.
"The tragedy of today's Ukraine is that the people who came to power in Kyiv through the coup are pursuing a policy against its people. The authorities have pursued the noxious line aimed at not just a total break-up with Russia but the collapse of their own country," he said
"We believe that Bandera activists and other nationalists were the striking force in the Ukrainian coup and the events in Donbas," he said.
A trend has been observed that each visit to Kyiv by a U.S. politician or general is followed by a new wave in the armed conflict in southeastern Ukraine, with Washington pretending not to notice shelling of residential areas and thousands of civilian deaths, he said.