At a time when the Kremlin accuses Ukraine of involvement in the bloody attack that took place near the capital, Moscow, on Friday, which Kiev denied, accounts on social networking sites that are usually used by the terrorist organization ISIS published a video clip that was apparently filmed by the perpetrators of the attack inside a concert hall near the capital. Russian Moscow.
The attack, which Russian media began reporting at around 8:15 pm on Friday (15:30 GMT), was carried out by a number of gunmen in “Crocus City Hall”, a concert hall located in Krasnogorsk at the northwestern exit of the capital.
ISIS-Khorasan, which has targeted Russia several times, announced in a statement on Telegram that its members “attacked a large gathering (…) in the vicinity of the Russian capital, Moscow,” adding that they “withdrew to their bases safely.”
On Sunday, the SITE website, which specializes in monitoring the sites of extremist organizations, reported that the video, which is 1 minute and 31 seconds long, shows a number of people, whose faces appeared blurred and whose voices appeared distorted, holding assault rifles and knives, inside what appeared to be the lobby of the Crocus Concert Hall. City Hall.
While the attackers were firing bursts of gunfire, bodies were seen on the ground, and a fire could be seen breaking out in the background, according to Agence France-Presse.
This video clip appeared on a Telegram account, which SITE said belonged to an agency affiliated with the terrorist organization ISIS.
ISIS claims Moscow attack…and Russia falsely accuses Ukraine
Despite ISIS-Khorasan claiming responsibility for the terrorist attack in Moscow on Friday, and American warnings about the organization’s plans earlier in early March, Russia insists on pointing the finger of blame at Ukraine, with which it has been at war for more than two years.
The attack, for which the organization claimed responsibility on Friday evening, resulted in the deaths of at least 133 people.
According to the Kremlin, 11 people have been arrested, including 4 suspected of carrying out the attack.
Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged on Saturday to “punish” those responsible for the attack, saying that they were arrested on their way to Ukraine, without mentioning that ISIS claimed responsibility for this attack.
Putin said in a speech broadcast on television that the militants “tried to hide and head towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, there was a window prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the state border.”
For its part, Ukraine denied any connection to the attack, and the Ukrainian president’s advisor, Mykhailo Podlyak, said earlier via Telegram: “Let us be clear, Ukraine has nothing to do with these events.”
The “Russian Freedom Corps”, composed of Russian fighters fighting alongside Ukraine, also confirmed in a statement that “the Corps is not at war with peaceful Russians,” accusing the Russian security forces of planning the attack.
A report published by… Associated PressHe pointed out that it appears as if Moscow “wants to exploit the attack in order to inflame the Russian war in Ukraine, which has entered its third year,” noting that the Russian President did not mention ISIS at all in his speech.
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