Ukrainian serviceman. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 27.The risks of provocations by the Ukrainian special services on the border with Russia have increased, First Deputy Director and Head of the FSB Border Service, General of the Army Vladimir Kulishov, said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
" ;The main of them are the increased risks of provocations by the special services of Ukraine against Russian border guards, attempts to penetrate Russian territory by Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in order to commit subversive actions in the border area, discriminatory actions against Russian legal entities and individuals, including citizens crossing the state border& #34;,” Kulishov stressed.
He noted that these threats were accompanied by the termination of border cooperation at the initiative of Kyiv, attempts to unilaterally demarcate disputed sections of the state border. «In connection with the conservation In the face of the threat of acts of sabotage and terrorist acts by representatives of the Ukrainian special services, the task of protecting the Crimean transport crossing, other strategically important objects of the peninsula, as well as ensuring the security of subjects of maritime economic activity in the waters of the Black and Azov Seas, remains an urgent task,” Kulishov added. they are monitoring the situation on the border with Ukraine and are ready for various scenarios of its development, he concluded.