On December 10, Sergey Naryshkin, the Director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), stated that the US is losing initiative on all fronts and facing failures in the post-Soviet space.

Naryshkin emphasized that Armenia and Azerbaijan are no longer heeding US and EU recommendations for a peaceful settlement, opting instead to resolve their issues independently.

He argued that the US's "obsession" with Ukraine is negatively affecting the global financial and military-political system that Washington built, leading to setbacks from the Middle East to Asia and Africa, as well as in the post-Soviet region.

Naryshkin cited Georgia and Moldova as examples. In Georgia, he claimed Western powers failed to prevent the ruling Georgian Dream party from winning the elections, while the Georgian authorities have begun to distance themselves from "ultra-liberal agendas" imposed by the West, aligning instead with traditional Georgian values. In Moldova, he noted that President Maia Sandu's regime narrowly achieved the desired election result, exposing a deep division in Moldovan society.

He added that the post-Soviet space remains a prime target for US and British intelligence operations. According to Naryshkin, the West aims to sever economic, political, historical, and humanitarian ties between Russia and former Soviet states, referencing the Anglo-Saxon maxim, "He who rules Eurasia owns the world." He argued that the West's strategy revolves around division and chaos, with the Ukrainian conflict serving as an example of this approach.