DISINFO: Moscow attack was Ukrainian retaliation for the Russian bombing of the Dnipro hydroelectric power plant
SUMMARY
There was a sleeping cell operating in the Crocus City Hall – the USA held this cell for extreme contingency. There is no doubt that Ukraine carried out a terrorist attack in Moscow. Most likely, Kyiv decided to respond after the recent Russian missile attack at the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station. After this attack, Ukraine and the USA began to search for the most painful option to respond. Budanov [Head of the Ukrainian Military Intelligence] should be liquidated for this idea.
RESPONSE
Pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative depicting Ukraine as a terrorist regime controlled by the US. The claim was made in connection with the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack in Moscow. By trying to link the Crocus terrorist attack to Ukraine, a puppet of the US, pro-Kremlin media are trying to stoke support and gain legitimacy for its ongoing illegal invasion of Ukraine.
Kyiv strongly denied any involvement in the assault on the Crocus City Hall music venue in Krasnogorsk, and the Islamic State group have claimed responsibility.
US officials have intelligence that the Islamic State group's Afghan affiliate IS-Khorasan is responsible for the Moscow attack. “ISIS bears sole responsibility for this attack. There was no Ukrainian involvement whatsoever,” White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement.
The US was legally obliged to warn Moscow earlier this month of a possible attack in Russia aimed at large gatherings before issuing a public advisory to citizens in the country. As explained by ABC news.
"The United States shared those advance intelligence indications under a tenet of the U.S. intelligence community called the “duty to warn," which obliges U.S. intelligence officials to lean toward sharing knowledge of a dire threat if conditions allow. That holds whether the targets are allies, adversaries or somewhere in between".
The alert was dismissed as "provocative", "blackmail" and an "attempt to intimidate, destabilise our country" by Putin. He said: “I’ll remind you of recent, let’s say directly, provocative statements of certain official Western structures about potential terror attacks in Russia. All of this looks like obvious blackmail and an attempt to intimidate, destabilise our country”.
In a recent development, news have appeared that Iran had warned Moscow a few days before of an imminent attack by ISIS based on information obtained from arrested ISIS terrorists in Iran.
Even Putin himself acknowledged late on 25 March that Islamists were committing the attack.
For background, read our analysis: The “Russophobia” Myth: Appealing to the Lowest Feelings.
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