Russian political and business elites do not believe that Ukraine staged a terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall near Moscow.
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Bloomberg writes about this, citing four sources close to the Kremlin.
According to the agency’s interlocutors, the Kremlin was “shocked” by the failure of the FSB, but dictator Vladimir Putin decided in any case to “rally the Russians around the war with Ukraine.”
Bloomberg’s sources claim that Putin was present at the discussions, where officials acknowledged that Kyiv was not connected to the terrorist attack.
At the same time, Russian officials officially talk about the “Ukrainian trace.” In particular, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev and FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov announced Ukraine’s involvement. The latter claims that he knows that Ukraine was training militants in the Middle East.
In addition, Putin publicly stated that the Ukrainian side had prepared a “window” so that terrorists could escape from Russian territory.
Statements about a “Ukrainian trace” in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Holi in Krasnogorsk are completely unfounded, but quite expected. Russian propaganda has been trying to label Ukraine as terrorism since the very beginning of its aggression in 2014. “Terror,” allegedly unleashed by Kiev against the “people of Donbass,” became one of the main ideologies of Russianism, and at the same time, a formal reason for first recognizing the so-called. LDNR, and soon to a full-scale attack on Ukraine.
Moscow is guaranteed to try to squeeze out the maximum benefit for itself from the terrorist attack in Crocus. Time will tell how successful these attempts will be. But it can definitely be argued that Russia’s ultimate goal is not to reduce the terrorist threat in the world, but, on the contrary, to create more comfortable conditions for the continuation of its own terror, primarily against Ukraine.
Source: Racurs
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