Russian President Putin is trying to connect the ISIS-K to the Ukraine…..
Russian energy strikes on the Ukraine cause extensive damage that will cost Billions to repair…..
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The Moscow attack WAS a failure of the Russian Government….
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Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, said that the Moscow concert hall attack is “part of Kyiv regime’s attacks on Russia”. In remarks made Monday, Putin called the attack an “act of intimidation” and said that Russian officials are “interested in who benefits from it”.
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Three more people were detained as a “preventive measure” in connection with the Moscow concert hall attack. The three men were detained after being accused of committing crimes under Russia’s Terrorist Act.
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Some of the gunmen accused of carrying out the attack were briefly in Turkey to renew their Russian residence permits, Reuters reported, citing a Turkish security official. The Turkish official added that the men were not radicalized in Turkey.
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The White House dismissed Russia’s claims that the attack is linked to Ukraine, calling the assertion “Kremlin propaganda”. On Monday, White House spokesperson John Kirby addressed the accusation, saying: “There was no linkage to Ukraine … This is just more Kremlin propaganda.”
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The cost of repairing the damage caused by Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure last week will probably run into the “billions”, the country’s energy minister said. In terms of the cost of repairs, “the real figures will be after assessment of the damage but I think it is in the region of billions, for sure,” German Gerashchenko told reporters…..
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Mar 25, 2024 – ISW Press
The March 22 Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K) attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall is a notable Russian intelligence and law enforcement failure, and explaining currently available open-source evidence does not require any wider and more complicated conspiracy theory either within or against the Russian state. Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed during an address on March 25 that “radical Islamists” committed the attack, but immediately and basely accused the United States of trying to cover the “Ukrainian trace” of the attack, directly accusing Ukraine of being the “customer” of the attack. ISW continues to assess that the attack itself, as well as the claim pattern following the attack, is highly consistent with the way IS conducts and claims such incidents and has observed no evidence that Ukraine was involved in the attack.