Moscow, March 3. Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed measures to protect facilities from terrorist attacks at the Russian Security Council on Friday, a day after Russia’s Bryansk region was the target of alleged Ukrainian sabotage and drone strikes on the Russian territory.
“Today we have only one problem, but very important, the measures to guarantee the anti-terrorist protection of the installations under the jurisdiction of the security organs,” he said at the start of the telematic meeting.
Putin then gave the floor to Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev.
The meeting was convened after the attack perpetrated this Thursday by suspected Ukrainian saboteurs in the Russian region of Bryansk, on the border with Ukraine, described by the Russian president as a “terrorist attack”.
The attack was claimed by the “Russian Volunteer Corps”, which defines itself as a formation of Russian volunteers as part of the Ukrainian armed forces, and killed two civilians, according to Russian authorities.
In addition to this incident, Ukrainian drone attacks on facilities inside Russia have become frequent.
On March 1, the Russian military said its anti-aircraft defense had foiled a Ukrainian “massive attack” attempt with drones against Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, whose annexation by Moscow will be nine years old on the 18th.
A day earlier, drones of unknown origin had sounded the alarm over Russian rear areas from the Moscow region to the country’s second city, Saint Petersburg, and the Black Sea coast.
The strikes hit the Kolomna district, about 90 kilometers south of the Russian capital, forced the skies over St. Petersburg to close and triggered aerial warnings in the Krasnodar region on the coast of the black Sea.
In a meeting with senior intelligence officials on February 28, Putin accused kyiv of using Ukrainian terrorism as a weapon of war.
“Last year, the number of such crimes increased. This is connected with attempts by Kiev to use terrorist methods. We know them well, they have been used in the Donbass for a long time,” Putin said during a meeting at the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB, former KGB). EFE
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