Foreign Intelligence Trying To Sabotage Russian Vital Facilities

Sergey Shoigu. (Source: KCNA)

JAKARTA - Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergey Shoigu said foreign intelligence agencies were trying to infiltrate their agents into vital facilities in Russia to carry out acts of sabotage.

"We must address not only terrorist attacks using explosives and unmanned aerial vehicles," Shoigu said in a meeting on securing important facilities from terrorist threats during a special military operation.

"But it is also an urgent need to counter cyber attacks on automated control systems and attempts to get agents into important government and industrial facilities to steal information and carry out technical sabotage," he added.

According to Shoigu, the sources of this threat vary, ranging from intelligence agencies from other countries, especially Ukraine, to international terrorist organizations and domestic accomplices.

"Human factors should not be ignored. The enemy actively uses information and psychological warfare, which involves various means of communication and the World Wide Web, to influence residents, including guards and personnel at related facilities, to persuade them to carry out illegal activities for personal or ideological purposes," the top Russian security official said.