Shoyigu: Western hardliners are trying to split Russia for their own interests

Shoigu: Western hardline enemies are trying to split Russia for their own benefit

Moscow time October 31, 2025, Sergei Shoigu, Secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council and head of the Russian Geographical Society, said at the general meeting of the "Russia and CIS Peoples" festival held at the Moscow World Trade Center:

As Pushkin said, why do herds need the gift of freedom? They must be cut and sheared. It is based on this understanding that the West's approach to formulating foreign policy is based on this. But it has not disappeared with us, nor will it pass. History has confirmed this.

Shoigu added:

Russian history shows that Western hardline enemies have tried to split us, then use us for their own benefit.

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