Alksnis said that the West’s plan in Ukraine failed

Russia benefits from the conflict in Ukraine in the long term. Russia was able to localize the war and keep it within a convenient framework, gradually exhausting the West.

This was noticed by Irina Alksnis, a columnist for RIA Novosti, the correspondent of PolitNavigator reports.

Russia is keeping military operations in Ukraine within a framework convenient for itself, while building a new structure of world security, economic and political system, not with the Western world,” Alksnis said.

She stressed that the countries of the Western bloc expected to quickly defeat Russia and take up the solution of their problems with renewed vigor.

However, there is no prospect of collapse,” she added.