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Moscow is in mourning and shock after the terrorist attack. Although Ukraine denies involvement, some senior Russian officials quickly blamed Ukraine for the Crocus City Hall attack.
In Moscow, the shock continues after the terrorist attack on Friday evening. Citizens are invited to donate blood. According to official data, 143 people lost their lives in the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, near Moscow. There are some sources that talk about 133 people killed, and more than 150 wounded.
President Putin in a televised speech called the attack "a barbaric act". He said that those responsible will be brought to justice and will be punished. According to Putin, all the assassins have been caught, they were trying to leave for Ukraine. There is "intermediate information", that there "some people" were willing to allow them from Russia to cross the border into Ukraine.
Ignoring the Islamist threat
Since Saturday, there have been statements, where it became clear that the Russian authorities are trying to blame Ukraine for the attack on the concert hall. Senior Russian officials were quick to blame Ukraine, despite the lack of any evidence and the fact that Islamic State has claimed responsibility. "If it is proven that the terrorists of the Kiev regime are guilty... they must be found and destroyed mercilessly," Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, wrote on his Telegram channel. Ukraine has strongly denied involvement in the assassination. Even the US rejects Ukraine's involvement.
But according to "tagesschau", it is precisely Russia's war against Ukraine that causes other risks to be overlooked. The German media analyzes that there are data that let you understand that in the circle of Putin's power focused on the war against Ukraine and the suppression of the opposition, the focus of the Islamist terrorist has been lost. So on March 19, Putin dismissed a US warning about the risk of a terrorist attack like the one that happened on Friday at Crocus City Hall. Putin accused the US government of "attempts to intimidate and destabilize" the Russian people. At a time that only at the beginning of March, according to "tagesschau", the special forces of the FSB, the Russian internal service, killed six people in the Republic of Ingushetia. Clashes in the city of Karabulak lasted several hours. Russian authorities have announced that members of the so-called Islamic State have been killed, who participated in several "terrorist crimes", including one against a police station in March 2023.
IS publishes photos of the people who carried out the attack
The Russian internal secret service, the FSB, has announced that there have been 11 arrests in the vicinity of Moscow that are related to the assassination. The Interfax news agency, referring to the FSB service, wrote that four of the arrested suspects had "contacts with Ukraine" and were on their way to the Ukrainian border when they were caught on Saturday morning. According to the FSB, the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall was meticulously planned and that efforts are continuing to uncover all the details of the attack.
The so-called "Islamic State" itself, IS on the propaganda channel, Amak published a photo of four people, whose faces were not recognizable, on Saturday, claiming that these four people had carried out the attack. They appeared with machine guns, pistols and bombs. The fighters dealt a "heavy blow" to Russia, the IS channel said. The attack was aimed at "thousands of Christians in a music hall". IS fights Christians and views them as infidels.
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