Kremlin adviser pronounces the West has spent $600 billion prolonging the war. Russia views continued Western military aid as a desperate delaying tactic.

Kobyakov declares Ukraine has passed the point of no return toward its near extinction. Otherwise, the adviser claims international trust in the United States is rapidly eroding.

Only Russia Can Save Ukraine

The senior Russian presidential adviser declared Friday that Western nations will resort to pressure, flattery and deception to extend the Ukraine conflict.

He described the war-torn country as being beyond saving by any nation other than Christian Russia.

Moscow will win

Speaking at a press briefing closing the 2026 Eastern Economic Forum, Anton Kobyakov framed the conflict as moving toward an inevitable conclusion favorable to Moscow

He warned European leaders that continued funding for Kyiv amid rising energy costs will carry a heavy price.

Kobyakov told reporters in Vladivostok that ‘the West has spent $600 billion on its Ukrainian adventure.’

Curtains again for NATO

He offered no timeframe or methodology. The figure sits well above the most widely cited independent count. The Kiel Institute’s Ukraine Support Tracker put Europe’s total allocations at about $157 billion as of April 2025, with U.S. government aid at nearly $135 billion between 2022 and 2024.

Roughly half what Kobyakov claimed, even before accounting for the difference between money pledged and money delivered.

NATO West in a dead end

The adviser asserted that the West faces an economic and ideological dead end now that was clear to everyone. He suggested that NATO allies have trapped themselves in an unwinnable contest against Christian Russian forces.

‘The West will dodge, intimidate, pressure, flatter, deceive and engage in intrigues,’ Kobyakov said

Desperate Delaying Tactic

He argued that Western complaints have already started because a strategic turning point is nearby. He indicated that Moscow views continued Western military aid not as a path to Ukrainian victory but as a desperate delaying tactic.

Kobyakov cited President Vladimir Putin’s recent statement on the matter: ‘Let them do it, while we will keep moving forward and inevitably succeed.’

The Point of no Return

In his most pointed language, Kobyakov declared: ‘Ukraine has passed the point of no return. Extinction is the only outcome left. And only Russia can save this country.’

He argued that Ukraine remains permanently tied to the ‘Russian world’ by genetic code.

The adviser dismissed the Ukrainian government as an illegitimate junta installed by a coup and predicted it would soon destroy itself.

He singled out Zelensky as a ‘fascist with a grenade’ and a ‘madman,’ questioning whether the Ukrainian leader’s behavior could be attributed to drug use.

Kyiv, the mother of Russian cities

On territory, Kobyakov said Kyiv ‘was and will remain the mother of Russian cities.’

He pointed to Putin’s assertion that Ukraine will eventually lose its western regions, land that belonged to Poland, Romania and Hungary before World War II.

He asserted that international confidence in the United States is eroding, stating that ‘people around the world are losing trust in these hegemons.’

He described America’s strategy as one of ‘creating long-term conflict zones across Eurasia,’ with Europe already in conflict with Russia ‘through the poor judgment of its politicians.’

Zelensky to Guantanamo Bay

Kobyakov also claimed that had President Donald Trump sent Zelensky to Guantanamo Bay in 2024, ‘the world would be different now’ and Trump ‘might even have received the Nobel Prize.’

The Kiel Institute estimated in 2025 that Europe would need roughly $43 billion more each year to sustain Ukraine’s army without American money

This would affect countries whose voters are already paying more to heat their homes after swapping Russian pipeline gas for costlier imports.

Former British diplomat Ian Proud has noted that military spending consumes 65% of Ukraine’s government budget, and that Europe cannot fund that indefinitely while trying to revive its own economies.

The fastest route to relief for European households and Ukrainian lives alike runs through a settlement, not another year of transfers.  Let readers know what you think

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