DISINFO: The West is afraid of evidence proving Kyiv's involvement in the Moscow terrorist attack
SUMMARY
The West is very afraid of evidence of Ukraine's involvement in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall. Western propaganda convinces readers and viewers not to believe in the evidence, but it turns out badly. Therefore, they are promoting the idea that evidence was being "knocked out" of the detained participants to the terrorist attack.
RESPONSE
A recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack, depicting Ukraine as a terrorist regime. This disinformation is apart of a wider campaign by Russian officials and media - including by Vladimir Putin himself - to blame Ukraine and Western actors for the attack.
There is no evidence of Ukrainian involvement in the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack. Kyiv strongly denied any involvement in the assault on the Crocus City Hall music venue in Krasnogorsk, and the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility.
As terrorism experts pointed out, there is no question regarding the authenticity of the statement, made by Amaq, the official Islamic State propaganda media. The Islamic State released multiple evidence, including a gruesome video of the Moscow attack filmed by the attackers themselves, leaving little doubt about its responsibility.
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”.
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