Russia: Americans exposed themselves in the Crocus terrorist incident

Maria Zakharova told this Russian media on Wednesday, April 8, 1403: In the event that Kiev was not involved in the terrorist attack on Crocus, Washington’s first statements should have been about the need to investigate and present the facts.

The spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry continued: Washington officials had no right to draw conclusions about the innocence of any person or country in the midst of a tragedy.

He pointed to the new request of the United States to investigate this incident and added: If Washington did not have information about the organizers of this terrorist attack, it would not have the right to deny anyone’s role in this incident in the initial positions.

This Russian diplomat said: Russia considers the position of the United States regarding the investigation of the terrorist attack in the Crocus concert hall to be clearly biased; Washington is trying to keep Ukraine away from harm.

Referring to the presence on Tuesday of the ambassador of the United States of America and other Western and non-Western countries at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to sign the memorial book for the victims of the Crocus terrorist incident, Zakharova said: “Yesterday, Westerners also came to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and realized that Despite the fact that they consider themselves to be in control and aware of everything, but the world has taken a step forward, and if the Westerners do not change their attitude from the crazy state towards this terrible disaster, they will be completely left behind.

Zakharova emphasized: We will remember how the Western countries changed their position regarding this incident to other terms and the majority of the world forced them to speak with real words.

He continued: The Westerners immediately started rewriting their statements overnight, sending diplomatic notes, leaving completely different notes. We will remember this too.

Previously, Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, announced on Tuesday: Ukraine is behind the terrorist attack on April 3, 1403, on the Krokos City Hall in the Moscow region.

Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the Russian Federal Security Service, also said: “The preliminary data from the arrested persons regarding the terrorist attack in the Krokos Hall, confirms the Ukrainian denial in this incident and will be completed by the special intelligence services.” >
On Monday evening, the President of Russia said about this: America is trying to convince everyone through various channels that apparently there is no trace of Kiev in the bloody terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall and that this action is the work of the ISIS terrorist group.

Vladimir Putin added: The terrible crime in Crocus is an act of intimidation and terror in the Russian society, which was carried out by extremist Islamists; These questions arise, who benefits from this work? And did the radical Islamists really decide to attack Russia?

He added: It is also necessary to answer the question why the terrorists wanted to leave for Ukraine after committing the crime in Krokos and who was waiting for them there?

Putin called the terrorist attack in Crocus a ring in a series of efforts by those who have been fighting Russia since 2014 at the hands of the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev.

Earlier, Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in response to the insistence of the American authorities on the non-involvement of Ukraine in the April 3 terrorist attack on Moscow’s Crocus Hall and the identification of ISIS as the perpetrator of this attack, said: The political elites of the United States have been staging for decades. And they have become skilled at diverting public opinion.

After the attack on the Krokos City Hall on the evening of Friday, April 3, 1403, John Kirby, the strategic communications coordinator at the US National Security Council, said that he did not see any signs that Ukraine or Ukrainians were involved in the Moscow attack. After that, American officials repeatedly declared that there were no “Ukrainian traces” in the case. Specifically, the US State Department announced that “there was no trace of Ukraine in the terrorist attack in Crocus and that’s it.”

The shooting of terrorists and their attempt to throw fire bombs before the concert in Crocus City Hall in the Moscow region on the evening of Friday, the third of April 1403, killed 139 people (according to the statistics of the Russian Investigative Committee) and injured 180 people (according to According to the statistics of the Ministry of Health of the Moscow Region. Eyewitnesses spoke of the presence of four terrorists at the time of the terrorist attack on the Krokos City Hall, who were later said to have brought flammable materials to set the hall on fire. This fire led to the collapse of parts of this hall.

According to the head of the Russian Investigative Committee, the terrorists arrived at Crocus City Hall at 19:58 on Friday the third of April (Moscow time) (20:28 Tehran time) and left the building at 20:11.

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Alexander Bastrykin said in a report to the President of Russia on the evening of Monday, April 6, 1403: In this terrorist incident, 40 people died due to gunshots, 45 people died due to fire; Including the injured who died in the hospital, a total of 139 people have died so far. The operation of removing the debris and searching for the victims of this accident is supposed to end on Tuesday, the seventh of April.

According to the announcement of the Federal Security Service of Russia, 11 people, including the four terrorists who attacked this hall, have been arrested so far. In the meantime, the car carrying the terrorists was stopped in Bryansk while fleeing towards the border of Ukraine, and four terrorists were arrested.

The trial sessions of the defendants of this terrorist operation began on the evening of Sunday, the 5th of April, behind closed doors for security reasons, in the Basmani court of Moscow, and continued on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, this court issued a warrant in absentia for the arrest of Vasyl Maliuk, the head of the Ukrainian security service, for his admission of actions against Russia before the events of the terrorist incident in the Krokos City Hall. There is no terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall on April 3, 1403. The documentation of the issuance of this sentence goes back to Maliuk’s content, which he wrote in Telegram: The Ukrainian security service was involved in a series of attacks against Russian oil refineries, the Crimean bridge and ships in the Black Sea.

While the Russians mention Ukraine as the agent behind the Crocus crime, the military confrontation between the two countries continues for more than two years, and in addition, it has entered the stage of sabotage and destruction of energy and social infrastructure.

The Russian Federal Security Service announced on April 7, 1403 that it prevented a terrorist attack by a member of a group supported by the Ukrainian special services in the Samara region.

Source: IRNA