TSAMTO, October 10. On October 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin held an operational meeting with permanent members of the Security Council via videoconference.
Below is the introductory word in .Putin at the meeting is given in the statement of the Kremlin's press service.
Vladimir Putin: "Dear colleagues, good afternoon!
You know that yesterday the chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin reported to me about the first results of the investigation of the sabotage committed on the Crimean Bridge.
The data of forensic and other examinations, as well as operational information, indicate that the explosion on October 8 is a terrorist act, a terrorist attack aimed at destroying the civilian, critical infrastructure of Russia.
It is also obvious that the customers, organizers, perpetrators of the terrorist attack are the Ukrainian special services. The Kiev regime has been using terrorist methods for a long time. These are the murders of public figures, journalists, scientists, both in Ukraine and in Russia. These are terrorist attacks on the cities of Donbass, which have been going on for more than eight years. These are acts of atomic terrorism, I mean rocket and artillery strikes on the Zaporozhye NPP.
But not only that: the special services of Ukraine have also carried out three terrorist acts against the Kursk NPP of Russia, repeatedly undermining the high-voltage lines of the power plant. As a result of the third such terrorist attack, three such lines were damaged at once. The damage was eliminated as soon as possible by the measures taken, no serious consequences were allowed.
But a number of other terrorist attacks and attempts of similar crimes have also been committed against electric power facilities and the gas transportation infrastructure of our country, including an attempt to undermine one of the sections of the Turkish Stream gas transportation system.
All this is proved by objective data, including the testimony of the detained perpetrators of these terrorist attacks themselves.
As you know, representatives of Russia are not allowed to investigate the causes of explosions and destruction of international gas transmission systems passing along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. But we are all well aware of the ultimate beneficiary of this crime.
Thus, the Kiev regime, by its actions, has actually put itself on a par with international terrorist formations, with the most odious groups. It is simply impossible to leave crimes of this kind unanswered.
This morning, at the suggestion of the Ministry of Defense and according to the plan of the Russian General Staff, a massive strike was carried out with high-precision long-range air, sea and land-based weapons on energy, military administration and communications facilities of Ukraine.
In case of continued attempts to carry out terrorist attacks on our territory, Russia's responses will be tough, and their scale will correspond to the level of threats posed by the Russian Federation. No one should have any doubts about this.
I ask the Minister of Defense to report on the results."
The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, Head of the Presidential Administration Anton Vaino, Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Director of the Federal Service Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin, Special Representative of the President on Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport Sergey Ivanov.
