MOSCOW, November 8. /TASS/. Kiev is increasingly resorting to terrorist methods against Moscow, including attempted attacks on Russian nuclear power plants (NPP), after its much-ballyhooed counteroffensive fell flat on the battlefield, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev said.

"A lack of success on the battlefield is making Kiev step up the use of terrorist methods, including assassination attempts against and killings of Russian citizens, attacks on civilian facilities and critical infrastructure. Ukraine has made such [attempted attacks] against the Leningrad, Kalinin and Kursk nuclear power plants," he noted at a meeting in Moscow with counterparts from Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) nations.

Patrushev pointed out that, on October 26, a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) hit a nuclear waste storage facility at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant and another two UAVs struck the NPP’s administrative compound.