A top Russian security official said in an article published today, that Moscow has “neutralized” hundreds of foreign spies in recent years.

THE Nikolai Patrusevhis secretary Russian Security Council, He wrote in the journal of the Russian counterintelligence service:

“Recent years, hundreds of foreign intelligence workersas well as other persons involved in the organization of intelligence gathering activities, as well as subversive activities against our country and our strategic partners, identified and neutralized”.

Patrushev, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putinis a former director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and he is seen as a major supporter of hardline policies in the Kremlin.

In another development, a court in Russia sentenced today to twelve-and-a-half-year prison sentence for a man for sending military hardware, mainly surface-to-air missile components, to the US; Russian news agencies reported today.

Sergei Kabanov found guilty of ‘high treason’ in favor of the US by a court in Tver, a city located northwest of Moscow, according to the Interfax.

This man accused of “organizing a smuggling network” aiming to send “components that the Russian military uses to build missiles” under the orders of the American secret services, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) clarified.

It was about parts “Russian surface-to-air missile systems and radar weapons“, according to the same source.

These materials were transferred through Latvia to a US company in Alabama, Victory Procurement Services, “controlled by the US Department of Defense”, the FSB said.

Kabanov must serve his sentence in a maximum security penal colony. He was arrested in 2021, according to Interfax.