The Islamic State claims responsibility for the Moscow attack: Ukraine denies its involvement and points to a Kremlin «operation»

The Islamic State claims responsibility for the Moscow attack: Ukraine denies its involvement and points to a Kremlin «operation»

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He Islamic State (IS) claims responsibility for the attack on a concert hall near Moscow that left at least 60 dead, according to the terrorist organization’s channel in Telegram.«Islamic State fighters attacked a large group of Christians in the city of Krasnogorsk, on the outskirts of the Russian capital, Moscow, killing and wounding hundreds of people and causing widespread destruction there before retreating safely to their bases,» he reported Amak on his Telegram channel.

Also this morning the following was published The United States has intelligence information confirming the Islamic State’s claims, a US official told Reuters.

Ukraine, For his part, he assured it «It does not have anything to do with it» with the attack committed on Friday against a concert hall in a shopping center on the outskirts of Fly in which at least 40 people died and more than a hundred were injured.

«Ukraine certainly had nothing to do with the shootings or explosions Croco Town Hall. “It doesn’t make any sense,” said the adviser to the Ukrainian Presidential Office. Mijailo Podoliak in a message on the X social network.

The presidential advisor added that «Ukraine has never resorted to terrorist methods» to fight Russia, and he stated it It was «the same Russia» that on other occasions «attacked its own citizens initiate «anti-terrorism actions» against protesting ethnic groups.

Podoliak was also convinced that «the events» taking place in Moscow «will contribute to a sharp increase in military propaganda, an acceleration of militarization, the expansion of military mobilization» in Russia and an «escalation» of aggression military against Ukraine.

The Ukrainian presidential advisor also predicted that the massacre will be used by Kremlin for «justifying blatantly genocidal attacks against the civilian population of Ukraine».

He stressed that Ukraine has been fighting against the Russian army for more than two years and that therefore «everything in this war will be decided only on the battlefield.»

He stressed that the war will be won «only with the quantity of weapons» and with «qualitative military decisions», since «terrorist attacks do not solve» anything.

Advisor to the President of Ukraine, Volodmir Zelensky, He also said that long before Friday’s shooting in the Russian capital «we had heard public warnings from foreign embassies in Moscow about the possibility of such bloody excesses.»

“Bottom line: There is no doubt that events on the outskirts of Moscow will contribute to a sharp increase in military propaganda, acceleration of militarization, increased mobilization and, ultimately, escalation of war.” «, which will include the» justification of genocidal attacks against the civilian population of Ukraine, «he said.

Russia vows revenge

former Russian president Dmiti Medvedev He said Russia will «destroy» Ukrainian leaders if it is proven that they were involved in Friday’s deadly attack on a concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow.

«If it is established that they are terrorists of the Kiev regime (…), they will be identified and destroyed without mercy, as terrorists. Including the leaders of the state who committed such atrocity,» he declared in Telegram Mdvedev, number two of Russian Security Council.

Among the author’s possibilities, for the moment, attacks of false flag not even him jihadist attack, according to several experts.