The US, UK and Ukraine may have been behind last Friday’s terrorist attack on a concert venue in a suburb of Moscow, which claimed lives of 139 people and left around 200 injured, according to the head of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).
Aleksandr Bortnikov told reporters on Tuesday that the authorities are currently trying to establish the identity of everyone involved in the attack, both inside and outside Russia.
When asked whether the US, Britain and Ukraine could be behind the terrorist attack, the FSB chief responded: “We think that this is so. In any case, we are now talking about the information that we have. This is general information, but they [investigators] also have concrete results.”
Bortnikov’s statement to the media follows a meeting of the expanded board of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia. The FSB director told reporters that the intelligence service will do everything necessary to identify the direct organizers and sponsors of the terrorist attack.
On the evening of March 22, a group of men armed with assault rifles attacked the Crocus City Hall music venue in the Moscow suburb of Krasnogorsk, just before a concert by the rock band Picnic was due to start. The 7,500-capacity venue was almost full at the time of the attack. The terrorists killed guards, shot concert-goers on sight, then started a fire that quickly spread throughout the building.
At least 139 people, including three children, were killed in the attack, the chair of the Russian Investigative Committee, Aleksandr Bastrykin, reported on Monday. Around 200 people were injured, according to the latest data.
After the attack, Russian security services detained 11 people connected to the incident, including those believed to be the gunmen who carried out the attack.
Moscow’s Basmanny Court has since arrested seven other suspects who are accused of helping organize the terrorist attack.
@ISIDEWITH1mo1MO
How does the accusation of foreign involvement in a terror attack affect your views on international relations and trust between nations?
@9L5C4PCWomen’s Equality1mo1MO
It affects your trust and involvement in a terror attack by letting everyone know which side you are on. It also affects the trust with other nations by knowing who you would choose if two countries had a war.
@9L5D5YQ1mo1MO
it's sad and horrible. We need better relationships with all nations as they need with each other especially power nations like Russia and China.
I feel as it is breaking nations apart and putting them against each other I believe that is very wrong.
@ISIDEWITH1mo1MO
Is it appropriate to blame other nations for a domestic tragedy before all facts are available?
@9L5DHB8Republican1mo1MO
no, the way I put it and the way the US Justice system puts it you are innocent until proven gilty
@9L5CNHF1mo1MO
yes its appropriate because if it was just between 2 countries it would turn into a issue
@9L5C4PCWomen’s Equality1mo1MO
It is not appropriate to blame other nations for a domestic tragedy because they were not the main ones involved in the scene, unless they are donating money which kind of involves them since they are choosing a side .
@VotingMareDemocrat1mo1MO
Oh, now FSB chief Aleksandr Bortnikov says the have “visions” about the United States, Britain and (of course) Ukraine being involved in the ISIS mass murder near Moscow.
Moreover, it suddenly “appears” that all this time Ukraine has been providing training for ISIS militants in the Middle East!
They know they lie, we know they lie, they totally realize how shameless and dumb this is, we totally see why they do this - and yet they keep doing this.
@LeopardCamilaGreen1mo1MO
You're not their targeted audience. People in Russia are. may be some people in the global south, too. And people in Russia either don't know or they don't care that the lie.
Its not the news, and it's not the first time. every time, they always say the same words, they just used to scapegoat Ukraine, so they fabricate everything about Ukraine.
@VoleLaylaPatriot1mo1MO
@9L5CZL91mo1MO
I’m afraid that this will bring us to war
@9L5CW8P1mo1MO
I think what Is happening in Ukraine is very bad
I don't believe this, but I believe Moscow would say this just to instigate.
@9L5FX3P1mo1MO
US, UK, and Ukraine have had an agreement to not fight or go into war with anyone.
@9L5DX971mo1MO
It’s most important due to it being one of the 3 major conflicts the United States is currently involved in for one reason or another. Versus and accident and a weeding out the bad in our government. This conflict can possible destroy the world if not fixed.
@9L5CGDR1mo1MO
Russian ideological basis and justifiction, people falling for obvious bait showing mass alienation within our society, world tensions rising.
@9L5C5GYConstitution1mo1MO
until absolute fact is found there shouldn't be any output of false information that could upset everyone.
@9L5GFRV1mo1MO
I dont really kniw what to think and i want to know more about it
@9L5G3MB1mo1MO
The U.S is being blamed for something that I would say is kind of a big deal.
@kstorm15 1mo1MO
We need more unbiased coverage of events happening in other countries.
@9L5BQH91mo1MO
I think this is important because it can start a war among these countries.
I think we shouldn't enter problems.
I think it does matter and so does others
@9L5BC2T1mo1MO
It can be used in order to begin ww3.
@9L5BTQJ1mo1MO
there trying to gaslight the people like in animal farm.
@9L59NWY1mo1MO
i believe it is ridiculous that Putin claims Ukraine is responsible
@TacosDougMountain1mo1MO
When it goes against their narrative, it's a conspiracy theory, when it upholds the lie, it's a false flag.
@MacawClaraTranshumanist1mo1MO
I suppose anything is possible. CIA trained GUR etc, It would follow previous patterns of subversion. However, there is also Russia's previous involvement in Bush's "war gin'st terror" too back when relations were, well, better.
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