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After the bloody terrorist attack in Moscow, Russia's state media linked Ukraine and the West with the terrible attack.
Moscow - Despite warnings from the USA of a possible attack and several letters of responsibility from Islamist terrorists, the media in Russia never tires of blaming both Ukraine and the West after the bloody terrorist attack on a concert hall near Moscow.
There are indications that Vladimir Putin is still trying to use the attack near Moscow to legitimize the war in Ukraine that he is waging and also wants to hold the West responsible for the atrocity.
The spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry under Sergei Lavrov, Maria Zakharova, made serious allegations against the USA on Monday (March 25) - and spoke of a "narrative of IS terror".
After the bloody terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall in northwest Moscow, Russia's state media linked Ukraine and the West with the terrible attack.
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Terrorist attack in Moscow: Kremlin media target Ukraine and the West
"In Russia today there is an extraordinary front page summarizing Moscow's attempts to link Ukraine and the West to the massacre at the Crocus City concert hall," BBC's British Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg reported on
Wednesday
(27). March) on X, formerly Twitter, about the Russian state media's propaganda machine running at full speed.
In the article, Rosenberg shows the current lead of the Russian newspaper
Arguments and Facts
.
It is luridly reported: “We know the architects of the Crocus terrorist attacks.
And who organized it.
May they burn in hell.” It continues: “All this nonsense about the Islamic State.
They should tell each other that.”
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In the interior section of the most widely read Russian weekly - with a circulation of almost 3 million - there follows an article about an “American footprint in the Crocus tragedy”.
Among other things, it says: “Terrorism was the standard instrument of the West for decades,” translates the
BBC
journalist.
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As the next example, Rosenberg cites the front page of the daily newspaper
Komsomolskaya Pravda
: "In Ukraine, people were preparing to give the terrorists a hero's welcome," explains the director of the Russian domestic intelligence service FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, there.
When asked whether he thinks the USA, Great Britain and Ukraine are responsible for the attack in Moscow, he replies: “We think so.”
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In the
Rossiyskaya Gazeta,
Bortnikov says: “The Ukrainian side has participated in the training of fighters in the Middle East.” The paper quotes George Galloway, a member of the British Parliament with more than dubious ideology, as an “expert”.
The politician, who is known in his home country as an extreme left-wing nationalist and anti-Semite, says he believes “that the USA, its NATO allies and its puppet state Ukraine are actually responsible for the mass murder.”
It all sounds too familiar to be surprising.
Shortly after the attack, in which at least 139 people were killed, Vladimir Putin shaped the Russian narrative, according to which the Ukrainians had already prepared a loophole for the attackers and had prepared their escape.
The Ukrainian leadership vehemently rejected this.
However, the Russian president recently stated that he believed that radical Islamists were behind the attack.
However, he did not completely deviate from his original suspicion of a “Ukrainian trace”.