Nikolai Patrushev is on the US blacklist for his links to Ukrainian separatists. On December 3rd in Moscow last year , Patrushev met with Serbian Minister Aleksandar Vulin. On the same day, December 3rd, his son Dmitry Patrushev was in Zagreb, where he said Croatia was one of Russia’s most important partners in the EU.
Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia’s National Security Council, is coming to Belgrade, Russian media reported. Patrushev is due to arrive in Serbia in late February.
One of President Vladimir Putin’s most important aides in Belgrade will talk to Serbian intelligence leaders, and the main topic, according to Russian media, will be “volunteers” from BiH, Albania and Kosovo suspected of fighting in Donbas, on the side of the Ukrainian authorities.
Ria Novosti writes that the information about Patrushev’s arrival was shared with the public by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.
Recall that, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Russia Today at the end of the week that the Western Balkans “has become a hotbed of crime where mercenaries are recruited in American-style conflicts.”
“We have information that militants from Kosovo, Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina have been recruited to ‘overturn Russia out of balance’, which includes sending them to Donbas (eastern Ukraine). “We are working to confirm that information,” Lavrov told RT.
BiH and Kosovo officials have denied the Russian foreign minister’s information. But just three days later, Putin’s first informant, Nikolai Patrushev, announced his arrival in Serbia to “exchange information” about “militants from BiH, Albania and Kosovo” fighting in Donbas, an occupied region in eastern Ukraine by pro-Russian paramilitaries.
Nikolai Patrushev is a former director of Russia’s FSB intelligence service. In April 2018, the U.S. Department of Treasury (OFAC), in cooperation with the State Department, imposed sanctions on this Putin intelligence officer.
Nikolai Patrushev, is known as one of the most powerful people in Russia. He is one of Vladimir Putin’s closest associates. Nikolai Patrushev’s son is the current Minister of Agriculture in the Government of the Russian Federation.
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