Terrorists have
started using suicide groups consisting of members of one family with minor
children to penetrate protected facilities more actively.
UFA, June 19. /TASS/.
International terrorists are trying to obtain access to nuclear and biological
weapons and also toxic chemicals to use them in their attacks, Russian Deputy
Security Council Secretary Yuri Kokov told the tenth international meeting of
high-level delegates overseeing security matters in Ufa.
"A number of
tendencies in the tactics of international terrorist organizations’ steps
deserve special attention and analysis," Kokov said. "First of all,
this concerns the continued attempts to get access to data about the
manufacturing of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, their increased
attention to issues related to the use of pathogenic biological agents and
toxic chemicals for terrorist purposes. "
"The increased
use of modern high-tech technical means creates additional risks as terrorists
seek to quickly acquire them and use in order to commit crimes," Kokov
said. As an example, the deputy security chief cited the attacks on Russian
military facilities in Syria carried out with the use of drones. This March, in
order to prevent such attacks, Russia’s Aerospace Defense Forces destroyed a
depot belonging to the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham terrorist group in Syria’s Idlib,
which stored combat unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
According to him,
terrorists have started using suicide groups consisting of members of one
family with minor children to penetrate protected facilities more actively. One
of the new forms of terrorist activity was an attempt to attack coastal infrastructure
using saboteur swimmers, who had been trained and had skills in mining seaports
and capturing civilian vessels, primarily tankers and gas carriers.
Source: ITAR-TASS
19-06-2019
