MOSCOW, March 10. /TASS/. Over 1,000 attempted terrorist attacks have been thwarted in Russia over the past 20 years, more than 2,500 militants eliminated and some 17,000 of their accomplices detained, Alexander Bortnikov, Federal Security Service (FSB) director and chairman of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC), said at a session dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the NAC’s founding, which was established by a presidential decree on March 10, 2006.
He also noted that Ukrainian intelligence agencies, with guidance from the West, are waging terrorist and subversive warfare against Russia.
TASS has compiled the FSB director’s main statements.
Russian special services have recently prevented "a whole series of high-profile terrorist attacks, including the assassination of high-ranking government officials and command personnel of the Russian army and national guard, the use of homemade bombs and firearms on public transport amidst heavy passenger traffic and an apartment building being bombed."
Ukrainian intelligence agencies, with guidance from the West, are waging terrorist and subversive warfare against Russia: "Apart from international terrorist organizations, we are also confronted by Ukrainian intelligence agencies and their foreign puppet masters, who appear to have lost touch with reality, believing their actions will have no consequences. This is a completely new, higher level of terrorist threats," Bortnikov noted.
