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The Kremlin still refused on Monday to discuss the possible responsibility of the Islamic State (IS) in the attack perpetrated Friday evening against the auditorium of Crocus City Hall in Moscow.
“The investigation is ongoing, no comment
,” presidential spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said in substance on Monday.
A display of impartiality which would be of good quality if it were not contradicted by several official voices, including that of Vladimir Putin himself.
The day after the attack, in fact, the Russian president and his powerful security services, the FSB, did not mention jihadist involvement, jointly evoking a Ukrainian lead that was vigorously denied by kyiv and the West.
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As the head of the Kremlin affirmed in his first televised intervention after the attack, the alleged killers were trying to reach Ukrainian territory, signaling, according to him, the responsibility of the Kiev regime.
The next day, the ministry spokesperson…
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