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07:42, March 27, 2024
Five days after the terrorist attack in Moscow claimed by the Islamic State and its 139 deaths, Russia insists on a link between kyiv and the alleged attackers. The Russian security services (FSB) accuse Ukraine and the West of having facilitated the attack. They gradually unfold the predictable scenario consistent with the Kremlin’s accusations.
Five days after the attack in Moscow, Russia continues to insist on a link between kyiv and the alleged attackers. These attackers were arrested near Bryansk, according to the Investigative Committee, southwest of Moscow, the area is on the route to the nearest borders.
“The Ukrainians had prepared a window for them to pass through”
A geographical location for a leak which serves the assumptions of the boss of the Russian security services (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, interviewed by Russian television: “The Ukrainians had prepared a window for them to pass through and it is not a big secret that I confide to you, but on the other side, they were expected as heroes”.
Words which unsurprisingly correspond to the Kremlin’s expectations. “The Islamists alone cannot organize such an act. Of course they were helped. And we see the first Ukrainian elements in this matter, as the president said. We are working in this direction, which is confirmed by the first confessions of the arrested suspects”, indicates the head of the FSB.
The head of the very powerful security service also declares that Ukraine trained these terrorists in the Middle East. It is one of the most consulted articles on the website of the TASS news agency which abounds readers with alleged evidence in favor of the Ukrainian thesis, always firmly denied by the country and the West.