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| Patrushev: 16 terrorist attacks were prevented in the North Caucasus in 2023 |
| 2024-03-08 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Moscow, March 7, 2024, 13:49 - IA Regnum. In the North Caucasus in 2023, 21 terrorist crimes were prevented, including 16 terrorist attacks. Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev stated this at a retreat on national security issues in Ingushetia on March 7. “Twenty-one terrorist crimes were prevented, of which 16 were terrorist attacks,” he said. As the Secretary of the Security Council clarified, the number of extremist crimes in the North Caucasus decreased by a third over the year, almost 4.5 hundred people were convicted for them, and in total in 2023, the activities of 149 groups - supporters of international terrorist organizations - were suppressed in the district. As Regnum reported on March 7, FSB officers liquidated a Belarusian citizen in Karelia who was preparing a terrorist attack. Security forces prevented a terrorist attack planned by the Ukrainian special services with the participation of a recruited Belarusian. The FSB established that an agent of the Ukrainian special services was collecting information about transport infrastructure and regional authorities. He was going to blow up one of the buildings in Olonets. During arrest, he resisted. In September 2023, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Yuri Kokov stated that with the beginning of the North Military District, Kiev switched to large-scale terrorist activities. The number of terrorist attacks in Russia has increased sharply. Thus, according to his data, since February 2022, 143 terrorist crimes have been committed on Russian territory, including 131 terrorist attacks. At the same time, through the efforts of special services and law enforcement agencies, 256 terrorist crimes were prevented, of which 144 were terrorist attacks. |
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