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World

Zelensky aide denies Ukraine link to Moscow concert hall attack

Published March 23, 2024
This image grab taken from footage obtained by AFP TV shows unidentified gunmen moving towards the doors of the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, late on March 22, 2024. Photo: AFP
This image grab taken from footage obtained by AFP TV shows unidentified gunmen moving towards the doors of the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, late on March 22, 2024. Photo: AFP

KYIV: Kyiv said Saturday it rejected Russian claims of a Ukrainian link to an attack on a Moscow concert hall that killed more than 100 people.

Russia’s FSB security service said Saturday it had arrested the gunmen behind the attack while they were trying to flee to Ukraine.

“The versions of Russian special services regarding Ukraine are absolutely untenable and absurd,” Mykhaylo Podolyak, an aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest in Russia in almost two decades.

Gun attack at Moscow concert leaves at least 40 dead: authorities

The FSB had said the perpetrators had “tried to escape, travelling by car towards the Russian-Ukrainian border … the criminals intended to cross the Russian-Ukrainian border and had appropriate contacts on the Ukrainian side.”

It did not provide further details.

Some Russian lawmakers, as well as former president Dmitry Medvedev, have also evoked a possible Ukrainian connection, without providing evidence.

Russia said Saturday it had arrested 11 people – including four assailants – though Moscow has not responded to Islamic State’s claim of responsibility or said who it believes was behind the attack.

Kyiv’s own intelligence services had on Friday said it was a “planned and deliberate provocation by the Russian special services on Putin’s orders.”

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SAMIR SARDANA Mar 23, 2024 11:27pm
CIA + ISRAEL ! PAYBACK TO PUTIN FOR RUSSIAN SUPPORT,TO HAMAS AND PALESTINE AND IRAN ! ATTACK IS IN RAMADAN TO DRIVE A WEDGE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND MUSLIMS ! ISRAEL WANTS WW3 ! SAMIR SARDANA
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