2024-03-23 05:09:20
Ukraine denied, through the advisor to the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, Mijailo Podoliak, any involvement in the massacre that has claimed dozens of lives in the Russian capital.
“Of course Ukraine has nothing to do with the shooting or the explosions,” Podoliak wrote on his social networks. The presidential advisor added that “Ukraine has never resorted to terrorist methods” to combat Russia, and stated that it has been ” “Russia itself” which on other occasions “has attacked its own citizens to initiate ‘anti-terrorist actions’ against protesting ethnic groups.”
Podoliak was also convinced that “the events” taking place in Moscow “will contribute to an abrupt increase in military propaganda, accelerated militarization, the expansion of military mobilization in Russia and “an escalation” of military aggression against Ukraine.
The Ukrainian presidential advisor further predicted that the massacre will be used by the Kremlin to “justify the blatantly genocidal attacks against the civilian population of Ukraine.”
The “Russian Freedom Legion,” a group of Russian anti-government fighters based in Ukraine, also denied any involvement in the attack. “We emphasize that the Legion does not fight against Russian civilians,” the group insisted on Telegram, accusing “Putin’s terrorist regime” of having “prepared” this “bloody provocation.”
For its part, the United States affirmed that there is no indication that Ukraine participated in the “horrible” attack that occurred in a concert hall in a shopping center on the outskirts of Moscow, where at least 40 people were murdered and more than a hundred They were injured.
In a press conference, one of the White House spokespersons, John Kirby, explained that the United States is still gathering information about the event, but said that “at the moment there is no indication that Ukraine or Ukrainian citizens are involved.” .
A week before the Russian presidential elections of March 15-17, several Western embassies, including the United States, warned of possible terrorist attacks in Russia.
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