Russian FSB says US, UK and Ukraine behind Moscow attack

The director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, said on Tuesday that the US, UK and Ukraine were behind the Moscow concert hall attack that killed at least 139 people on Friday - despite repeated claims of responsibility by Islamic State.

Russian officials persisted in saying Ukraine and the https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/03/25/eu-to-russia-dont-use-moscow-attack-as-pretext-to-intensify-war-on-ukraine had a role in last week’s deadly Moscow concert hall attack despite vehement denials of involvement by Kyiv and a claim of responsibility by an affiliate of the Islamic State group.

Without offering any evidence, Alexander Bortnikov, head of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, followed similar allegations by President Vladimir Putin, linked the attack to Ukraine even as he acknowledged that the https://www.euronews.com/2024/03/25/four-bruised-and-bloodied-men-charged-over-moscow-concert-attack arrested were “radical Islamists.”

The IS affiliate claimed it carried out the attack, and US intelligence said it had information confirming the group was responsible. French President Emmanuel Macron said France also has intelligence pointing to “an IS entity” as responsible for the attack.

Passerby6497,

“All of the parties enemies are responsible for the thing they warned us about”

SarcasticMan,
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Right so, FSB instigated and facilitated IS to attack theater in Moscow in a Hail Mary to drum up support for Ukraine War escalation. Gotcha…well it worked in 1999 so why not lol

ramble81,

So whatcha gonna do about it? Whine even harder and continue to attack Ukraine?

(I know it’s not true, just seriously asking what’s the point of even trying to say that?)

WarlordSdocy,

The point is to sell that to the Russian people to build support for continuing the war.

rammer,
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Which means there will a big round of mobilization. Let’s hope that the ones that didn’t leave the last time around do this time.

Jaytreeman,

Did he just Reichstag an actual attack?

rammer,
@rammer@sopuli.xyz avatar

Nah, that was years ago when they shot at the parliament building with tanks. This is just a run on the mill false flag.

Treczoks,

The FSB says whatever Putin wants them to say,

mrfriki,

They could have said it was the aliens as well.

0xb,

They can say whatever the fuck they want and it even would be funny af. But most of the people there and a significant chunk of voting people here in the west are going to believe it.

tobogganablaze,

ISIS must be so mad right now.

psmgx,

Lol of course they’d say that.

aggelalex,

Cringe brainrot vomit announcements by Russia again.

fuckingkangaroos,

When your target audience is dispirited peasants with poor education and debilitating alcohol issues that’s a reasonable message.

Windex007,

He got away with having the FSB false flag bomb apartments to blame Chechnya, despite FSB agents being arrested by local police literally planting bombs in an apartment.

That was orchestrated murder and then a lie.

This is merely a lie.

rammer,
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There has been talk about there being FSB agents all dressed in blue shirts and jeans in the concert crowd and the abysmal security response in the first hours. So it is possible that this is more than a lie.

sturmblast,

Of course they do

SamsonSeinfelder,

We have to go back to the room now, Grandpa. We will talk tomorrow again about Ukraine, okay?

roastedDeflator,
@roastedDeflator@kbin.social avatar

It looks like Lukashenko says concert hall attackers first headed for Belarus, contradicting Putin

gravitas_deficiency,

Lmao. Putin, your ass would be spread across three different oblasts if we had organized that whole thing, and you know it.

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