The deadliest attack inside Russia after over two decades, has four men burst into the Crocus City Hall on Friday night, spraying people with bullets during a concert by the Soviet-era rock group Picnic.
Death toll from that gun attack at a concert hall outside Moscow was initially recorded to be over 60 with more than 147 injured but have just been reported again that 137 people were killed and injured 182 more, therefore, Moscow keeps accusing Washington of covering for Ukraine.
A Tajikistan citizen alongside 3 other men were apprehended and detained following the attack. They further were remanded in custody on terrorism charges while they appeared separately, by being led into a cage at Moscow’s Basmanny district court by Federal Security Service officers.
Islamic State had claimed responsibility for the attack, which the United States has publicly said it believes, and the militant group has since released what it says is footage from the attack. U.S. officials said they had warned Russia of intelligence about an imminent attack earlier this month.
While President Putin hesitates from following thre widely believed lead of ‘intelligence’, the Russian President said after the suspects arrest that, “They tried to hide and moved towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them from the Ukrainian side to cross the state border.” This statement however, points fingers at Ukrainian impact by sponsorship of the attack.
A prominent state television host, Olga Skabeyeva, also claimed on Telegram that Ukrainian military intelligence had recruited assailants “who would look like Isis. But this is no Isis”.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova also questioned U.S. assertions that Islamic State, which once sought control over swathes of Iraq and Syria, was behind the attack.
She said the United States was evoking the “bogeyman” of Islamic State to cover its “wards” in Kyiv, and reminded readers that Washington had supported the “mujahideen” fighters who fought Soviet forces in the 1980s. This was contained in an article for the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper,
Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman later told reporters that Russia could not comment on the Islamic State claim while the investigation was ongoing, and would not comment on the U.S. intelligence, saying it was sensitive information.