Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to make important announcements today during a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, RIA Novosti reports. Photo: kremlin.ru is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Vladimir Putin“We expect that today, at the operational meeting with the permanent members of the Security Council, sometime after 2:30 p.m., the president will make a number of important statements,” Peskov said. Putin regularly holds operational meetings with the permanent members of the Security Council, which he chairs. The Role of the Security CouncilThe Security Council assists the president in exercising authority in the sphere of safeguarding national interests and the security of society and the state. The Council also forecasts, identifies, analyzes, and assesses internal and external threats while developing measures to neutralize them.