Border Service of the FSB of Russia

Border guards of the Chukotka border detachment feed a bear with bear cubs with condensed milk, USSR, 1980s.

2023

Russian border guards shot down 1.3 thousand Ukrainian drones in a year

In 2023, 1.3 thousand Ukrainian drones were shot down by Russian border guards. This became known in May 2024.

According to RIA Novosti, more than half of the number of drones that violated the state border of Ukraine were neutralized using electronic warfare (electronic warfare).

The border protection service, primarily in the Ukrainian direction, massively uses both portable devices (the so-called anti-drone guns) and stationary complexes for detecting and suppressing UAV control channels, which, under the conditions of a special military operation, have shown their effectiveness - said the head of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia, Army General Vladimir Kulishov.

source = Ministry of Defense of Russia

Earlier, Andrei Marochko, a retired lieutenant colonel of the People's Militia of the LPR, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to use FPV drones more often to strike civilian infrastructure and civilians in the front-line cities of the Luhansk People's Republic, such as Svatovo, Kremennaya and Lisichansk.^[1]

The increase in the number of people who entered Russia by 36% to more than 110 million people

In 2023, over 110 million people who entered the Russian Federation passed through the Russian border. This is 36% higher than a year ago, said the first deputy director - head of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia, Army General Vladimir Kulishov at the end of May 2024.

Russia, despite attempts by Western countries to lower the Iron Curtain, remains open to international passenger traffic and active foreign economic activity, he said in a conversation with RIA Novosti).

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Deutsche Welle

Kulishov also cited statistics according to which in 2023 the state border of the Russian Federation missed about 22 million vehicles, which is 49% more than a year earlier.

In addition, it is reported that in 2023 more than 126 thousand people were not allowed through the Russian state border. About 10 thousand people of them reported deliberately false information about themselves and the purpose of their visit. In addition, Russian border guards stopped over 5500 attempts to enter Russia by persons associated with international terrorism and extremism. This is three times more than in 2022.

At the end of May 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that repeated attempts to break into the territory of the Russian Federation by gangs of mercenaries, traitors and Ukrainian sabotage groups were thwarted largely due to the determination of border guards.

According to the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation, the number of Russians traveling abroad in 2023 turned out to be 17% more than in comparison with the previous year earlier. In total, in January - December 2023, Russian citizens made 27 million trips abroad, and for the same period in 2022, the service recorded 23.1 million trips. The leaders in the travel of Russians included Abkhazia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, UAE, Egypt, Georgia, Armenia, Thailand, China and Finland^[2]

The chief signalman of the border guard coast guard department was arrested. He purchased Chinese tablets and passed them off as Russian

To Moscow In the 235th garrison court arrested the chief signalman of the coast guard department of the border service Russia , Captain Dmitry Kafanov, in the case of embezzlement of funds FSB by purchasing tablets at an inflated price. This became known on September 8, 2023. More. here

1941: Lawrence Beria Reform

During World War II, the border troops, which were still part of the Cheka/GPU/NKVD system, were headed and reformed by Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria.

1918: Creation of the Soviet Border Guard Service

The border service was created by Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of May 28, 1918.

Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky created the border service as we know it.

1908

Russian border guards on a buer. Cossack of the Life Guards of the Ataman Regiment and Guards Officers, 1908.

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