Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Sunday blamed the terrorist group Islamic State for Friday’s massacre of more than 130 people at a concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow and said Washington was “rescuing” Ukraine. published an outraged editorial claiming that
Gunmen opened fire on a crowd at the Crocus City concert venue and shopping mall complex on Friday night, as a group of rock band Picnic and others held a yet-to-be-started rally at the mall for tourism and other activities. They fired indiscriminately at concert attendees. At least one terrorist detonated explosives or incendiary devices, starting a large fire that contributed to the high death toll. As of Monday, Russian officials said: documented 137 people killed, more than 180 injured, bodies found in the rubble, some of the most seriously injured succumbing to their wounds, and the death toll is likely to rise further. I’m warning you that there is.
The Islamic State (ISIS) took responsibility for the attack on Telegram, the messaging app channel of the country’s Amaq news agency.account published A photo allegedly taken by the assailant during the massacre. The claim prompted the administration of left-wing US President Joe Biden to corroborate the claim, with US intelligence suggesting that Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) and its Afghan network organized and carried out the attack. It was clearly stated.
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The Russian government does not publicly agree with Islamic State’s claims. Russian strongman Vladimir Putin said in an address to the nation on Saturday that the men arrested in the attack “were believed to have been traveling towards Ukraine, but preliminary data suggests that they crossed the state border into Ukraine. There was a window prepared for them to cross.” ”
There was no mention of Islamic State or Islamic extremist terrorism.
Zakharova’s comments published in Sunday’s Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravdaappears to directly blame the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, accusing the United States of corroborating Islamic State’s claims about the attack.
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Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, five years before Zelenskiy took office, and has consistently supported separatist forces over the past decade, including direct military attacks. It also annexed five Ukrainian territories: Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia.
“American political technologists have cornered themselves with the story that the attack on Crocus City Hall was carried out by the terrorist organization ISIS,” Zakharova wrote. according to Translation of her article by Russian news agency TASS. “That is why Washington is trying to escape from its wards in Kiev every day and cover itself and the Zelenskiy regime they have created with the scarecrow of the outlawed ISIS.”
Zakharova cited evidence that “directly and indirectly indicates involvement” by the Biden administration in “Ukraine terrorism,” including:
[…] Billions of dollars and an unprecedented amount of arms, invested in a corrupt scheme without accountability to the Kiev regime, aggressive rhetoric about Russia, fanatical nationalism, a ban on peace talks regarding Ukraine; Endless demands for military solutions. The conflict, the refusal to condemn the years of terrorist attacks carried out by the Kiev regime, and the massive intelligence and political support for all of Zelensky’s actions, even his most atrocious ones.
Zakharova did not directly identify the Crocus City attack as an example of “Ukrainian terrorism.” Citing the unfreezing under the Biden administration of funding to USAID that allegedly went to the jihadist terrorist organization Hamas, she accused Washington of “sowing ‘controlled chaos’ in the hands of terrorists and disrupting the global order.” “We are reshaping the world,” he said.
A Foreign Office spokesperson also claimed that former Secretary of State and unsuccessful presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s comments were evidence of US support for jihadist terrorism, and when she recalled the war with the Soviet Union, ” I almost clapped my hands,” he said. mujhadeen Afghan terrorist.
Zakharova was clearly referring to this. comment Rather than praising the rise of jihadist terrorism in a 2009 Congressional hearing, Clinton denounced previous U.S. policies that she claimed had “contributed to it.”
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“Let us remember here…the people we are fighting today, we financed them 20 years ago…and we did so because we were locked in a struggle with the Soviet Union. “Because I had the power to do so,” Clinton admitted, criticizing Republican President Ronald Reagan.
“You know what sounds like a very good idea, President Reagan, working with the Democratic-led Congress…to import their Wahab brand of Islam from Saudi Arabia and other countries so we can defeat the Soviet Union. “And guess what…they (the Soviet Union) withdrew…they lost billions of dollars and that’s when the Soviet Union collapsed. It led to.”
The Russian government identified Four men have appeared in court claiming they took part in this weekend’s Crocus City attack. At least one person was confirmed to be Tajik. The Moscow government has not yet identified the organizations or groups involved in the attack.
