Putin targets ‘traitors, spies and saboteurs’ in new crackdownPresident Vladimir Putin ordered the strengthening of Russia’s borders and instructed security services to keep greater control of society and to ensure the safety of people in regions in Ukraine that Moscow claims as its own, news agencies reported.“Work must be intensified through the border services and the Federal Security Service (FSB),” Russia’s state-owned RIA news agency cited Mr Putin as saying on Monday.Any attempts to violate it must be thwarted quickly and effectively using whatever forces and means we have at our disposal, including mobile action units and special forces.”Speaking on Security Services Day, widely celebrated in Russia, Mr Putin instructed the services to increase control of the society and maximise their “use of the operational, technical and personnel potential” to prevent risks coming from abroad and internal traitors.“It is necessary to severely suppress the actions of foreign special services, quickly identify traitors, spies and saboteurs.”He also said that it is the tasks of special services to ensure the safety of people living in regions in Ukraine that Moscow claimed in September as their own – and which Kyiv and its Western allies called an illegal annexation.Kyiv and its allies in the West call it an unprovoked act of land grab."