MOSCOW, April 7. /TASS/. Russia’s special operation in Ukraine has become a moment of truth for the Russian world, which declared its readiness to defend its right to its own identity, the director of Russia’s foreign intelligence SVR, Sergey Naryshkin, said in an article uploaded to the website of National Defense magazine.

"Russia’s special military operation was a real moment of truth for the Russian world, which is determined to defend the right to its own identity in the face of aggressive globalism, embodied in US hegemony, NATO’s expansion, the policy of liberal interventionism and LGBT propaganda," he said. "To a no smaller extent the operation turned out to be a point of no return for the collective West, which in its Russophobic frenzy openly defies its own basic principles that took decades and even centuries to shape, such as the inviolability of private property, freedom of speech and free access to information."

Naryshkin believes that "the fierce resistance unequivocally indicates that something more than the future of the current regime in Kiev is at stake."

"In fact, the issue of the day is the architecture of the whole world order. Guessing its shape in the current situation is very hard, but it can be stated with certainty that there will be no return to the past," he said.