# EU and NATO will squeeze Kiev regime for everything it has, Russian delegation head says

https://mins.news/en/item/90358

- TASS, 2026-10-07 20:44 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2199013

> Yulia Zhdanova, head of Russia’s delegation to the Vienna negotiations on military security and arms control, said EU and NATO countries would use the Kiev regime to serve their interests until they had squeezed out everything. She said the West chiefly needs high-intensity combat experience, pointing to NATO’s Avenger Triad 26 exercises on its eastern flank, involving about 4,000 troops and systems linked using information from the Ukrainian military.

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