MOSCOW, October 12. /TASS/. The West should realize that the strategy of fighting "to the last Ukrainian" will lead nowhere, but in the meantime the US and the EU continue to push Ukraine "into the inferno," Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Alexander Venediktov said in an interview with TASS on Wednesday.

According to him, Russian-Ukrainian negotiations this past spring were torpedoed "on direct orders from Washington".

"As soon as the West realizes that the strategy of fighting to the last Ukrainian and constantly raising the stakes leads nowhere, then it will probably be possible to think about getting back to our initiatives [negotiations with the West on security guarantees for Russia]. But for now, the Americans and Europeans zealously continue to push Kiev into the inferno," Venediktov stressed.