Attempts to actively recruit and engage in terrorism are carried out by the special services of Ukraine in relation to citizens of the Russian Federation, especially young people. This was announced by FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov at the meeting of the National Counter-Terrorism Committee (NAC).
“Under the conditions of Russia’s carrying out a special military operation, the Ukrainian special services and their Western curators launched an aggressive ideological and conscription indoctrination to involve our compatriots, especially the younger generation, in sabotage-terrorist and extremist activities.” the body’s press service reports the words of the head of the NAC.
Bortnikov noted that since the inception of the SVO, Russian special services have prevented 118 terrorist crimes. Its artists were teenagers and underage youth.
Terrorist crimes include not only terrorist attacks, but also Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.). This article also includes posts on social networks.
On April 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Western intelligence agencies are assisting Ukrainian security forces in carrying out terrorist attacks on Russian soil.
“Neo-Nazis and their accomplices not only operate in the territory of the Federation’s new subjects, but also commit crimes in other regions. “There is every reason to believe that the potential of third countries – Western intelligence services is involved in the preparation of such sabotage and terrorist attacks,” Putin said at the meeting of the Russian Security Council.
At the same time, Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev stated that the Security Council “to hinder the recruitment activities of the Western intelligence services, to identify agents of influence, to counter the spread of the ideology of neo-Nazism and religious extremism, primarily among children and youth.”
On February 28, at the FSB’s extended board meeting, Putin demanded that the use of social networks and the Internet be stopped to involve minors in extremist actions.
“Work must of course continue to detect and stop the actions of those who use the internet and social networks to ideologically promote terrorism and extremism, those who try to divide our citizens into groups, and of course we all know very well that the most vulnerable category here is the youth,” said the President of the Russian Federation.
At the same time, the head of state noted that in 2022, the activity of extremists “using separatism, nationalism, neo-Nazism and xenophobia as weapons” in Russia has increased.
On the same day, experts on the site of the Civil Chamber of the Russian Federation, within the framework of the roundtable “Youth and SVO”, concluded that Russian youth should be equipped with fact-checking skills and taught to trust information. More nationwide events should be organized with representatives of the new regions of the Russian Federation, not from instant messengers, but from first hand, directly from people located in the NWO region.
At the roundtable, experts talked about the results of the research conducted by VTsIOM, in which 34 to 46% of the population consider themselves patriotic, with the smallest number denoting young people.
“We did a survey among young people: what do they know about SVO?
Someone answers questions openly, someone says he knows nothing, someone refuses to talk ”
– said Elena Rodionova, head of the commission of the Civil Chamber of the Russian Federation on youth affairs, the development of volunteerism and patriotic education.
On April 2, St. In the Patriot bar in St. Petersburg, a well-known military commander, military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, died as a result of an explosion. Daria Trepova, 27, brought the bombshell statuette there. He was detained, under arrest until June. The girl is suspected of committing a terrorist attack, she said she was set up.
On January 30, FSB officers detained a group of youths from Chekhov near Moscow, suspected of attempting to sabotage the Kursk branch of the railway. The underage children said that they received an order to sabotage from an unknown person in the messenger and was promised to transfer 10,000 rubles as a reward.