During a meeting with personnel from the KrasMash company, in the city of Krasnoyarsk, Shoigu assured that ‘information weapons are being created in these centers, located in the capitals of Latvia, Estonia and Poland, to be introduced and disseminated along our country.’

The minister said that many rumors and lies are shared from those places and confirmed that Russian citizens are participating in these preparations, TASS news agency informed.

Questioned about the existence of similar centers in Russia, Shoigu pointed out that his country does not train specialists in cyberattacks.

Regarding the way these offices are joined, he explained that the aim is to monitor information online, identify those which ‘do not write anything good’ and then invite them to work through scholarships.

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