KYIV – According to a report of Interfax of May 31, 2010, Ukrainian Security Service head Valerii Khoroshkovskyi said the threat of international terrorist organizations, including those of Islamist character, is not high at present.

"Unfortunately, not a single country is immune from this and we are a part of the risk zone. At the same time, there is no high terrorist threat in Ukraine," Khoroshkovskyi stressed in an interview with Kommersant Ukraine.

According to him, the Ukrainian Security Service has a well-developed system of information gathering, which exposes terrorist act planning at early phases.

There is no ethnic component to terrorism in the Crimea either, Khoroshkovskyi stressed.

"The Crimea has certain specifics, but they are unrelated to the Crimean Tatars. The specifics are related to the geography, as the peninsula has convenient places for secret meetings and camps. We have information about certain terrorist organizations, but they view Ukraine as a place for taking a rest or preparing operations in other states rather than as a theater of operation," he said.