New denial from Kyiv. This Saturday, March 23, Ukraine once again rejected any link with the attack that left at least a hundred dead on Friday in a concert hall near Moscow, after Russian special services stated that the attackers had contacts in Ukraine and were trying flee there when they met. arrested.
“We expected that the version of Russian officials would be ‘the Ukrainian way,'” the advisor to the Ukrainian presidency, Mykhaïlo Podoliak, noted in X.
“The statements of the Russian special services about Ukraine are absolutely unsustainable and absurd,” he swore then.
“Ukraine has not the slightest link with the incident,” he insisted.
Ukraine “has nothing to do” with the attack
The Russian security services (FSB) stated this Saturday that the suspects in Friday’s deadly attack on a concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow had “contacts” in Ukraine and intended to flee there. According to the Kremlin, eleven people were detained, including four possible attackers.
Ukraine, however, assured on Friday, through Mykhaïlo Podoliak, an advisor to the presidency, that it had “nothing to do” with this attack.
“Ukraine has never used terrorist methods of war,” he added.
An attack claimed by Daesh
Until Friday, the attack was claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) and assured that its attackers had “returned to (their) base in complete safety.”
ISIS, which Russia is fighting in Syria and which is also active in the Russian Caucasus, has already carried out attacks on Russian soil since the late 2010s. But the group has never claimed responsibility for such an attack. magnitude. country.
At the same time, the conflict, which began in February 2022, between Ukraine and Russia continues. The Russian army claimed this Saturday to have taken control of the Ukrainian town of Ivanivské, near Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, which would constitute a new advance in an important area where Russia has been on the offensive for weeks.
Source: BFM TV
