# Russian intel chief: Once-prosperous Ukraine ‘ground down’ by Europeans

https://mins.news/en/item/45335

- TASS, 2026-09-04 12:06 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2182755

> Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergey Naryshkin said Western elites are grinding Ukraine into dust in its conflict with Russia. Addressing a CIS security and intelligence chiefs’ meeting, he cited Ukraine as an example of what he called the West’s neocolonial approach to post-Soviet countries, saying European elites had ground the once-prosperous republic down against Russia.

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