There have been 23 terrorist attacks since the New Year,” he said. Patrushev spoke about saboteurs in Central Russia

Patrushev’s interview

According to RIA Novosti, on November 15, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Patrushev, held a meeting in Bryansk on security issues in the Central Federal District.

The event was also attended by Igor Shchegolev, the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal District, regional governors and representatives of federal ministries and departments.

Patrushev said Ukrainian “reconnaissance and sabotage” groups are becoming more active in Central Russia. First of all, in the border areas.

“Recently, the situation in the district, especially in the border areas, is characterized by the intensification of the activity of Ukrainian reconnaissance and sabotage groups, the systematic bombing of settlements using multiple launch rocket systems, artillery and unmanned aerial vehicles supplied to Ukraine by Ukraine. United States and other NATO countries”

Patrushev said in Bryansk.

According to him, civilian infrastructure objects are often chosen as targets because damage to them can endanger the civilian population or harm the economy.

“Attempts by representatives of radical and extremist structures to enter the territory of Russia with the aim of carrying out subversive activities and organizing terrorist attacks have intensified significantly,” said the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

According to him, since the beginning of 2022, 23 terrorist attacks have been carried out in the Central Federal District, 28 terrorist crimes have been prevented, including nine acts of sabotage. He stressed that the authorities of the regions of the Central Federal District should strengthen the resistance to saboteurs and strengthen the protection of objects, “taking care to reassess their vulnerability depending on the nature of the threats.” In addition, Patrushev provided each plant with “an appropriate [угрозам] security level”.

On behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin, meetings are regularly held in each of the Russian federal regions on the issues of ensuring national security. The previous meeting in the Central Federal District was held in videoconference format in October 2021, and “information security” in the regions and measures to strengthen it were discussed.

Patrushev about America

Nikolai Patrushev spoke about political issues at a meeting in Bryansk. According to him, Western governments are promoting neo-Nazism to erase the horrors of Nazism from people’s memory.

“The glorification and promotion of neo-Nazism, with the support of the Soviet Union and the states that waged a relentless struggle against fascist Nazism, shows that the West is consciously trying to erase the horrors and pains of the Nazi ideology from memory. brought to humanity,” said the Russian official.

He added that the US and its allies are trying to push the world into a global war with such policies. He also pointed to the formation of anti-Russian alliances by the American leadership and accused Washington of building military power.

“At the same time, the puppet Kyiv regime, which took power with the support of the Anglo-Saxons as a result of the coup, is also used as a ram against Russia,” Patrushev said.

According to him, America wants to destroy Russia. “The goal of the United States is to weaken, divide and ultimately destroy our country. To do this, they sow hatred against the multinational Russian people and support the development of far-right and nationalist ideas preached by the resurgent Bandera formations in Ukraine,” he said.

Finally, Patrushev once again repeated the words of the representatives of the Russian authorities – “the tasks of the special military operation will be completed”, despite the Western aid to Kiev. He also said that because the Russian Federation did not receive security guarantees from the West and saw Ukraine as a threat to create nuclear and biological weapons of mass destruction, it was “forced to launch a military defense”.

Referral allegations

On 14 November, the Izvestia newspaper, without citing a source, reported on its Telegram channel that a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group allegedly “trained in Europe” was detained in the Belgorod region (CFD).

The publication stated that the DRG included three individuals. “Forged documents belonging to one of the saboteurs, as well as weapons in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, were seized,” the publication says.

The fate of the detainees has not been disclosed, and Izvestia does not provide details on what happened.

On November 15, the FSB announced the arrest of a resident of Sevastopol (part of the Crimean Federal District (CFD)) who allegedly planned to organize a terrorist attack on a fuel depot in the city. The special service calls him a supporter of Ukrainian nationalism.

“It has been determined that a 20-year-old local resident, who is a supporter of Ukrainian nationalism, is planning to set fire to a fuel and mineral oil depot,” the press service of the FSB in Crimea said.

The name and surname of the detainee were not specified. According to the intelligence service, two Molotov cocktails, communications media and extremist leaflets were found at the suspect’s residence.

FSB investigators opened a criminal case under the article on preparation for a terrorist attack. The young man was imprisoned for two months.

On October 12, the FSB press service reported that a Ukrainian saboteur, tasked by the SBU to carry out a terrorist attack on a transport and logistics terminal, was detained in Bryansk (CFD). The 55-year-old Russian allegedly wanted to plant explosives in one of the warehouses of the shipping company. They confiscated from him “an explosive device made by him based on the warhead of an anti-tank guided missile weighing the equivalent of about 3 kg of TNT, as well as means of communication for maintaining contact with SBU officers.”