Patrushev said attempts by militants who fought in Syria to get to Russia

It is reported by RIA Novosti.

“Attempts to transfer to our country people who have gained combat experience as part of gangs in Syria and Iraq,” he said during a meeting on national security in the Urals Federal District, do not stop.

Patrushev noted that the threat of terrorism continues to exist, it is caused by the activity of international terrorist organizations operating on the territory of Russia in the form of concealed “sleeping cells” and collecting funds for their activities.

In 2018, Russian President’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov reported that terrorists are preparing to destabilize the internal political situation in Central Asia.

So he commented on the statement of the Collective Security Treaty Organization that 2,500 Islamic State militants * were deployed to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

* “Islamic State” (ISIS, ISIS) - the organization was recognized as terrorist by decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of December 29, 2014.