On Monday, Putin held a security consultation on the situation in the Dagestan Republic, where an angry mob tried to storm a plane arriving from Israel. These events were inspired on social media from Ukraine, including though Western intelligence services, the leader stated during his address, while the rest of the meeting was closed.
"The meeting is closed. Judging by the composition of the participants, you yourself can guess that, of course, we will then talk about strengthening measures to counter external interference, including external information manipulations and so on, which are capable of provoking the situation in our country, exploiting the theme of the same events in Middle East," Peskov told reporters.
30 October 2023, 18:32 GMT
The situation will be analyzed based on the results of the investigation into the events in Dagestan in order to exclude this in the future, the official added.