Last Updated on March 26, 2024
The head of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) is blaming the United States, Ukraine, and Britain for the Crocus City Concert Hall attack that killed at least 137 people and left over 100 more wounded as heavily armed men stormed the venue and unleashed carnage. While the United States and others in the West have immediately claimed that ISIS is behind the attack, the Russians say that it has globalist fingerprints all over it and that the suspects were caught attempting to flee to Ukraine. Four men have been arrested and charged with violating Russia’s anti-terrorism laws in connection with the attack, but the authorities say that the investigation will continue.
Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s FSB, says that the Russians believe the United States, Britain, and their Ukrainian proxies were behind the Crocus attack, which coincided with an increasing intensity in the war in Ukraine, as well as with Ukrainian attacks on civilian targets inside of Russia’s borders.
When asked by a reporter if the United States, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom were behind the attack, Bortnikov said that Russian authorities “believe that this is true.”
“…they have a long record of this sort,” Bortnikov went on, adding that the United States and its partners are carrying out “sabotage and terrorist acts” as part of an effort to strike Russia amid the nation’s ongoing war with NATO-backed Ukraine.
The attack, Bortnikov said, is “showing that the West and Ukraine are out to cause greater harm to our country.”
“There have been drone strikes, strikes by uncrewed boats at sea, and incursions by groups of saboteurs and terrorist organizations into our territory,” he explained, concluding that there is an incredibly high likelihood of American and Ukrainian involvement in the attack.
As mentioned, Bortnikov’s claims that the top two NATO nations and their partners in Ukraine were behind the attack come after it was revealed by Russian authorities, including President Vladimir Putin himself in a televised address to his nation, that when the four suspects were apprehended, they were en route to Ukraine.
“They tried to escape,” Putin told Russia.
“They were moving toward the border with Ukraine and we have data that suggests that they were about to be moved toward the territory of Ukraine by those in Ukraine.”
In the same statement, Putin also seemed to imply that the Russians were suspicious of American and other foreign involvement in the attack, calling it “cynically organized.”
“These perpetrators, these criminals, went specifically to kill people. Point blank. Our people. Our children. Just like the Nazis that once killed our people during the war, they did the same,” Putin said.
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While the Biden White House and other NATO power players have quickly blamed the attack on an ISIS cell based in Afghanistan, multiple reports have suggested that those responsible were selected for the job and paid to carry it out.
Furthering suspicion of American involvement is the fact that just prior to the attack, the U.S. State Department issued a warning to American citizens in Russia, specifically suggesting that they avoid concert halls and other mass gatherings, for fear of an attack.