Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs called on the democratic world not to be afraid of the collapse of the Russian Federation, but to be ready for any scenario of these events.
“For the regime ruling in the Russian Federation, the war it waged against Ukraine is a matter of survival. Therefore, the democratic world should not be afraid of the collapse of the Russian Federation, but arm itself with strategic patience and maximum restraint,” Rinkēvičs said in the Latvian Radio program Krustpunkt.
Rinkevich admitted that the West should be prepared for various scenarios of the collapse of the Russian Federation, because in this case a number of important questions will arise, namely about nuclear weapons, migration flows and internal processes in Russia.
“In the context of the war in Ukraine, the West should focus on weakening the Russian Federation as much as possible, but the outcome of the war will be determined, first of all, by Ukrainian soldiers at the front,” the minister said.
