TASHKENT. Nov 7 (Interfax) - Terrorists who are active in the Middle East are increasingly using humanitarian corridors to smuggle saboteurs in other countries, Russian Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov said at a meeting of the CIS Council of the Heads of Security Agencies and Special Services.
"One of the channels used for smuggling groups of saboteurs and terrorists into countries that international terrorists are looking to enter is humanitarian corridors, which are used by militants' families, their wives and children, to return from armed conflict zones to the countries of origin," Bortnikov said.
"We currently estimate the number of women and children who are relatives of militants and are citizens of Russia who are in the Middle East or have left for it and on whom we have identification data," Bortnikov said.