@MicheleV_AK
I'd take everything Patrushev says with a shovelful of salt — check him out online: he's a firm believer in conspiracy theories and even the occult. Despite what you might think from the positions he had occupied throughout his career, the man is pretty much insane — even by Pooteen's inner circle standards: https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-putin-ditched-security-chief-nikolai-patrushev-conspiracy/