Moscow does not believe the Islamic lead and ignores the video claiming responsibility released by ISIS K. The footage of the macabre attack was released by the Islamic State agency, according to which it was carried out by the attackers themselves, but it received no attention in the official Russian media.
While the US believes the claim, Moscow does not and says it finds Washington's such rapid acquittal of Kiev suspicious .
The toll is 137 dead and 180 injured . While the four arrested on charges of being the perpetrators of the attack, blocked in the Bryansk region while according to the Russian authorities were trying to cross the border with Ukraine, were taken for formal interrogations to the headquarters of the Federal Investigative Committee in Fly.
US Vice President Kamala Harris reiterated that "there is no evidence that Kiev was behind the attack". And to the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, who stated that Russia is only "creating a smokescreen of propaganda", the spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, replied, according to which, "until the investigation is completed, every sentence from Washington justifying Kiev should be regarded as evidence."
Meanwhile, the pilgrimage of Muscovites continues in front of the remains of the Crocus City Hall, where an improvised memorial has been set up, covered in a sea of flowers. A huge electronic screen has been installed on the charred remains of the concert hall where the image of a candle and the writing: «Crocus City Hall. 3/22/2024. We are in mourning."
Meanwhile, many media report the story of Islam Khalilov, a 15-year-old boy of obvious Muslim origin, who worked in the cloakroom of the concert hall and saved dozens of people who were stuck, showing them the escape route. Tension remains high: in St. Petersburg yesterday a shopping center was evacuated after a man called the police saying he had planted a bomb in the premises , and was immediately arrested.
The Russian media have made it known that obviously the next weekly meeting of the National Security Council will be dedicated to the attack in Moscow. Some voices go so far as to predict a new military mobilization to intensify attacks on Ukraine , or a formal declaration of war, but diplomatic sources believe such a decision is unlikely at the current state, as it would lead to social tensions.
(Unioneonline)