VIENNA, October 7. /TASS/. EU and NATO countries will use Kiev to serve their own interests to the very end, head of the Russian delegation to the Vienna negotiations on military security and arms control Yulia Zhdanova said.

"It has long been clear that EU and NATO countries will squeeze the Kiev regime for everything it has to serve their own interests," the diplomat said at the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation in Vienna.

Zhdanova said the West primarily "needs experience in high-intensity combat." She pointed to NATO’s large-scale Avenger Triad 26 exercises, now underway with about 4,000 troops on the eastern flank.

The Russian diplomat said the exercises are aimed at improving coordination among allied forces. They will link drones, radars and other weapons systems "into a single network," using information obtained from the Ukrainian military.