IRKUTSK, May 26. /TASS/. Ukraine has turned into a test site for new weapons and warfare, Alexander Bortnikov, director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), said at a meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Council of Heads of Security Agencies and Special Services.
He warned that the deployment of digital laboratories to CIS countries would allow the West to create mechanisms to manipulate public opinion.
TASS has compiled the key statements made by the FSB chief.
Ukraine has turned into a testing range for new weapons and forms of warfare: "False promises of early EU accession turned Ukraine into a staging ground for military, subversive and terrorist operations against Russia. In fact, it has become a testing range for new weapons, the training of military AI systems, and new forms and methods of ‘false flag’ warfare."
Ukraine has also become Europe’s largest hub of weapons trafficking: "Under close Western patronage, Ukraine has become a serious factor of instability in the Commonwealth area. The Kiev regime has turned the country into Europe’s largest hub of weapons and ammunition trafficking."
