A day after Putin's victory speech in Syria, Moscow traces months of anonymous bomb threats to Syrian terrorists
Russian officials have attributed a majority of the anonymous bomb threats terrorizing the country over the past several months to terrorist-controlled locations inside Syria, according to Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubkov. The announcement comes after President Putin declared the defeat of ISIS in Syria and announced Moscow's latest troop withdrawal from the war-torn country.
Zubkov said the telephoned bomb threats have also come from Turkey, Ukraine, Canada, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and the United States. Russian officials have not revealed how they traced these calls.
Since September 2017, cyber-terrorists have made more than 2,700 anonymous bomb threats in 190 cities, forcing costly evacuations at shopping centers, movie theaters, state administrative buildings, and schools across Russia. By mid-November, more than 1 million people had been swept up in the evacuations. Federal agents have stated that the culprits are using IP telephony, making it difficult to track the calls.