He recalled the "prevented attempt by the Kyiv regime to physically eliminate some of our journalists through terrorist attacks."
Putin stressed that the criminals have been detained, and investigative actions are underway with them.
The President recalled that in Ukraine, methods of killing their own journalists and politicians on the street were used "quite often" in recent years.
“Now we have decided to transfer this practice to our territory.
Of course, we will do everything to protect those people who work on the official Russian channels, on radio, on television, to protect those people who work on the Internet, take a patriotic position, and such, of course, are the vast majority in our country. media space,” he said.
At the same time, the Russian leader said that it is necessary to understand that such a threat exists.
“Of course, we can’t assign guards, the FSO, the FSB or the National Guard to everyone.
But we will do, we must do our best to ensure their safety,” he said.
Earlier, the FSB announced the arrest of neo-Nazis who planned, on the instructions of Kyiv, the murder of Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov.
Solovyov thanked the FSB and stated that he did not notice any surveillance of himself.
According to the Investigative Committee, six defendants were detained.
One of the neo-Nazis detained in Moscow said that, in addition to the assassination attempt on Solovyov, they discussed plans to kill Dmitry Kiselyov, Margarita Simonyan and a number of other well-known Russian journalists.