Patrushev accused US and UK intelligence in incompetence

The current situation in Afghanistan partly became the result of the fact that US intelligence and other NATO members worked incompetence with information on this country, said Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev.

“The confidence of the military and political leadership of the United States and their allies in the fact that they fully controlled the situation in Afghanistan, led to ignorance and underestimation of the real situation,” said Patrushev in an interview with the newspaper Izvestia.

“In part, this is the result of the incompetence of the US intelligence services, England and other NATO countries, which, apparently, were not purposefully targeted to the collection and analysis of information, or worked poorly with it. The same miscalculations were allowed in other regions of the world, including the Middle East. , Including in Syria, Iraq, Libya, “Patrushev added.