MOSCOW, April 11. /TASS/. Ukrainian special services and their handlers have launched an aggressive campaign for involving young people into terrorism; 118 terrorist crimes involving young people were prevented in Russia over the past year, the Information Center of the National Antiterrorism Committee said following an NAC meeting held by its chairman, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov on Tuesday.

"The NAC chairman noted that in the context of Russia's special military operation the Ukrainian special services and their Western handlers have launched aggressive ideological brain-washing and recruitment of our citizens, primarily the younger generation, with the aim to involve them into subversive and terrorist and extremist activities. Since February last year 118 terrorism-related crimes have been prevented in Russia. The perpetrators were young people and teenagers, including minors," the NAC said.

According to the NAC, attempts to stage armed attacks on educational organizations by individual students under the influence of the ideas of Columbine (outlawed in Russia) and other destructive subcultures such as the Maniacs Cult of Murder pose a serious threat.

"Some of them are coordinated from the territory of Ukraine," the news release reads. In addition, efforts by members of international terrorist organizations to destabilize the situation in the North Caucasus have continued unabated.

"The participants in the meeting identified priority guidelines for the federal and regional authorities to follow in their activity, as well as for anti-terrorist commissions to improve the system of terrorism prevention. Each instance of youth and teenagers' involvement in terrorist activities is subjected to in-depth analysis. In order to form an anti-terrorist worldview in universities and schools, terrorism prevention issues are included in the humanities curriculum," the NAC reported. Special attention should be paid to counteracting terrorist and neo-Nazi ideology among youth in the territory of new territories of Russia.