From our correspondent in Moscow
Moscow does not budge: behind the attack against the Crocus City Hall on March 22, which left at least 143 dead and 360 injured, it is Ukraine and the West who are to blame. A message, hammered home all week and which has not changed in substance, despite the recognition by Vladimir Putin, Monday March 25, that
“radical Islamists”
could have committed this attack - which for Moscow does not call into question into question the real responsibilities.
The tone was set.
“We believe that the action was prepared both by radical Islamists themselves and, of course, facilitated by Western secret services, and that the Ukrainian secret services themselves are directly involved,”
summarized last Tuesday Alexander Bortnikov, director of the FSB, the Russian security services.
Russian power is in battle order
According to him, the objective was to
“sow panic in Russian society”
.
“Of course, Ukraine is responsible
,” said that same day, in a tone of the obvious…
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