2024-03-22 22:35:00
The terrorist organization Isis claimed responsibility for the attack in Moscow, Russia, which left 40 dead and more than 100 injured. It happened in the concert hall Crocus City Hall, in Krasnogorsk, on the outskirts of the Russian capital, where there was shootings and explosions, indicated the Russian security forces (FSB).
“The provisional toll of the terrorist attack perpetrated at the Crocus City Hall complex is currently 40 dead and more than one hundred injured,” said the FSB, quoted by Russian news agencies.
Ukraine accused of “self-attack”
On the other hand, for the Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR), the massacre was a “operation planned by the Kremlin’s special services” with the aim of “discrediting Ukraine” and the whole world free”.
Attack with shots and explosions in a concert hall in Moscow: there are at least 40 dead
“Let’s be clear, Ukraine has absolutely nothing to do with these events,” Mijaílo Podoliak said on Telegram. The kyiv army has been fighting Russian troops for two years, who invaded the country in February 2022.
On the other hand, GUR spokesman Andri Yusov, quoted by the Ukrainian news agency Unián, said that “of course, we are talking about a special operation of the Kremlin’s secret services against its own citizens”.
In a message published on its social networks, the GUR assured that The attack is another “pretext” to intensify Russian military aggression against Ukraine and to justify a new military mobilization within Russia.
According to the GUR, the fact that a group of people with assault rifles could move “freely” through Moscow would prove, “along with other irrefutable evidence” that the massacre was organized by Russian espionage.
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For its part, from the United States the White House conveyed its condolences: “We think of the victims of this terrible shooting,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters. “The images are simply horrible and hard to look at“he added.
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IS fighters “attacked a large concentration (…) on the outskirts of the Russian capital, Moscow,” the ISIS terrorist group said in a statement posted on the Telegram mobile messaging application.
Russian investigators opened an investigation into “terrorist attack” after the deadly shooting by gunmen followed by a fire. “The Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for a terrorist attack in the Moscow region,” said the body, in charge of the country’s main criminal investigations, on Telegram.
The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, provided the report on Friday of several deaths. “Today a terrible tragedy occurred in Crocus City. I offer my condolences to the families of those who died,” the mayor declared. Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, in turn, “prays for the peace of the souls of the deceased,” his spokesperson said.
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Sobianin also announced on Telegram the cancellation of “all sporting and cultural events” and public during the weekend. The Russian Foreign Ministry attributed the tragedy to “a bloody terrorist attack.”
“The entire international community must condemn this heinous crime!”asked the spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zajarova.
The camouflaged attackers entered the building, They opened fire and threw a grenade or an incendiary bomb, according to a journalist from the RIA Novosti news agency who was at the scene.
Governor Andrei Vorobyov traveled to the site of the attack and announced the creation of a special joint work unit between the National Guard’s Special Rapid Response Squadron and riot police to control the situation. Firefighters, assisted by helicopter, and more than 70 ambulances are working in the surrounding area.
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