Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on the country’s special services to intensify work in all areas amid new challenges and risks.
In a transcript of his video address on Security Agency Worker’s Day, published by the Kremlin on Tuesday, the Russian leader said, "Today’s rapidly changing global situation and the emergence of new threats and challenges impose high demands on the entire system of Russia’s security agencies. This means that you need to significantly improve your work in key areas, and use your operational, technical and personnel potential to the fullest."
He laid a special emphasis on security agency units in the new Russian regions where he said the situation was extremely complicated. However, he said it was their duty to do all it takes to ensure the safety of Russian people living there.
Outlining the priorities of all special services, primarily the Federal Security Service (FSB), Putin focused on the fight against terrorism. "You have vast experience in countering terrorism; therefore, it is necessary to continue the efforts to prevent terrorist attacks in a system-wide and consistent way," he insisted.
The Russian president also urged the country’s counterintelligence agencies, including the military ones, to show "utmost readiness and concentration. It is necessary to put a firm stop to the activities of foreign special services, and to promptly identify traitors, spies and diversionists," he said.
Putin made the remarks while congratulating Russian security agencies' officers on their professional holiday, which is celebrated on December 20. He said that in recent years Russia's security services have been working with high efficiency.
Putin also said the fight against terrorism remains one of the main priorities for all Russian security agencies, primarily the Federal Security Service (FSB).
Ukrainians being pushed into area of Maryinka where they would be unable to defend — DPR
Russia’s armed forces are about to push Ukrainian troops into the countryside part of Maryinka where the Kiev regime’s militants will find it very hard to defend, acting leader of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Denis Pushilin told Zvezda television channel.
"Maryinka will be liberated very soon.... We have a few blocks of flats to go, and as soon as we mop those up, we will be able to drive the enemy to the countryside part [of the city], which is almost completely destroyed, and the enemy will have nothing to cling at there," he said. "Therefore, several areas will open up for our advance - both Kurakhovka and Krasnogorovka," he specified.
This he said would enable Russian forces "to accomplish tasks as part of the liberation of those territories, and to take [the enemy] into ticks near Avdeyevka." According to Pushilin, this would be vital, for the Ukrainians have been shelling Donetsk and Yasinovataya from near Avdeyevka.
He also said the Ukrainians had been building up powerful defenses near Maryinka for the past eight years and had set up numerous firing positions, and dug trenches both along the houses there and under them. Besides, basements were converted to bases and shelters, Pushilin added.
DPR people’s militia forces began their operation to liberate Maryinka, a community west of Donetsk from where the Ukrainian military shelled the republic’s capital, on March 19. The DPR earlier said that the liberation of Maryinka would place the settlement of Aleksandrovka, the Petrovsky district and the Tekstilshchik neighborhood of Donetsk outside the reach of the Ukrainian army’s shelling.
Russia's MoD Briefing on Progress of Special Military Operation in Ukraine
Russian MoD’s briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:
▪️The Russian Army eliminated more than 20 Ukrainian servicemen, an infantry fighting vehicle, and two cars in the Kupyansk direction.
▪️Russian troops eliminated up to 70 militants, two armored combat vehicles, and two pickup trucks in the Krasny Liman direction
▪️Russian forces eliminated more than 130 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, three armored combat vehicles, and three cars in the Donetsk direction.
▪️The Russian Army hit Ukrainian 72nd Mechanized Brigade and 108th Territorial Defense Brigade groups in the South Donetsk direction.
▪️Russian troops eliminated two Ukrainian sabotage groups in the DPR, with Ukrainian Army losses amounting to 80 servicemen killed and wounded, as well as two armored combat vehicles and three pickup trucks destroyed.
▪️Russian air defenses shot down eight Ukrainian UAVs in the LPR, DPR, and the Kherson region, six HIMARS and Uragan rockets were intercepted in the DPR, LPR, and in the Zaporozhye region.
▪️Russian troops shot down four US-made HARM anti-radar missiles in the Belgorod region.
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