The minister also
stressed that fake news about Russia’s defense ministry and the armed forces
were thriving in media space.
MOSCOW, September 22.
/TASS/. Western intelligence services carry out hundreds of attempts every day
to penetrate Russia’s defense communications systems, Russian Defense Minister
Sergei Shoigu said in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets published on
Sunday.
"The West is
meddling in the army affairs - they are doing this in an absolutely imprudent
and brazen manner," Shoigu stressed. "The attempts of penetrating our
communications networks amount to several hundred every day," the minister
said.
The minister also
cited another example when some individuals acting "upon the instructions
from abroad" try to obtain data on the families of special ops forces, who
died when fulfilling their duties as well as about the buried military.
Shoigu stressed that
fake news about Russia’s defense ministry and the armed forces were thriving in
media space. "This is that we allegedly carried out a strike on a hospital
or that we are allegedly preparing to capture a country, or that dozens of
coffins have arrived somewhere or some senior officials at the defense ministry
have done something bad," he explained.
According to Shoigu,
Russia has restored its Main Military-Political Directorate in order to counter
this infowar.
Source: ITAR-TASS
22-09-2019
