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Putin had brought the “Ukrainian trace” into play in the perpetrator of the attack near Moscow.
His Foreign Ministry is now making further accusations.
Moscow - The Russian government's accusations against the West of involvement in the terrorist attack near Moscow continue.
Now the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman under Sergei Lavrov, Maria Zakharova, has made serious allegations against the USA.
Lavrov's spokeswoman claims that the US wanted to cover up Ukraine for the assassination attempt
The “American political engineers” had painted themselves into a corner with their “narrative” of an IS attack on the Crocus City Hall, Zakharova told the newspaper
Komsomolskaya
Pravda , according to the state news agency
Tass
.
In their view, Washington would hide itself and the Kiev “regime” behind the “scarecrows” of the Islamic State.
According to the report, Zakharova also listed several “direct and indirect factors” that indicated US involvement in the devastating terrorist attack in the Moscow suburb of Krasnogorsk.
In this context, she cites, among other things, US financial and military aid, the aggressive rhetoric towards Russia and the unreserved support for Zelensky.
She did not provide any concrete evidence.
Russian National Guard (Rosgvardiya) soldiers secure an area near Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow.
Russia is blaming Ukraine for this.
© Alexander Avilov/dpa
Putin tried early on to blame the attack on Ukraine
The day after the massacre, Vladimir Putin said in a speech on state television that Ukraine was responsible for the attack.
The four main suspects, who have now been arrested, “moved towards Ukraine, where a window had been prepared for them to cross the border,” Putin explained.
In fact, four suspected assassins were apparently caught in the Bryansk region, about 85 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
They have now been brought before a Moscow court, some of them severely mistreated.
As the independent news portal
Meduza
writes, its editorial team was able to confirm this based on geolocation of the arrest video.
The Ukrainian government generally rejects allegations of having anything to do with the attack.
Security experts contradict Russia's theory of Ukraine involvement
From the perspective of Russia experts in Germany, however, there is currently no reason to doubt the authorship of the “Islamic State Khorosan Province” (ISPK).
Nico Lange, senior fellow at the Munich Security Conference, told ARD
that there was agreement on the authenticity of the letter of confession as well as the videos of the crime, which were played out via the terrorist organization's relevant channels
.
In the course of this, he also pointed out the general threat of terrorism in Europe and not just in Russia: “That is the situation - and I believe that other things can no longer be interpreted into it.”
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In the terrorist attack last Friday at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow, several gunmen shot at visitors with machine guns and set fire to the concert hall before the start of a concert by the band Piknik.
According to official information, at least 137 people were killed, and according to the Russian Ministry of Health, as of March 25, there were a total of 182 injured.
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