Global | 2024.03.29 01:39
[뉴욕=뉴스핌]Correspondent Kim Geun-cheol = Russian investigative authorities announced on the 28th (local time) that they had secured evidence that the terrorists who attacked a concert hall near Moscow, killing more than 140 people, were related to ‘Ukrainian nationalists.’
Russia’s Federal Investigative Committee said in a statement: “After examining the arrested terrorists, studying technical devices seized from them and analyzing information on financial transactions, we obtained evidence of links with Ukrainian nationalists.” revealed.
The Federal Investigative Committee added that the terrorists received a significant amount of cash and cryptocurrency from Ukraine and that another suspect involved in terrorist financing is in custody.
Russian judicial authorities arrested 11 people after the Moscow terror attack, and are investigating with eight of them in custody.
Moscow terrorist attack site [사진=로이터 뉴스핌] 2024.03.25 kwonjiun@newspim.com
After the terrorist attack, the Islamic State (IS) declared that it was responsible for the terrorist attack, and the United States in particular pointed out that it was led by the Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), the Afghan branch of IS.
However, Russian officials, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, have claimed that the West, including Ukraine, the United States, and the United Kingdom, is behind this incident.
In particular, President Putin said on the 25th that he knew that the terrorist attack at the concert hall was the work of radical Islamists, but that it was linked to the Ukrainian government.
“This atrocity is just a link in a series of attempts by those who have been waging war against our country at the hands of the ‘neo-Nazi’ Kiev regime since 2014,” he said, pointing out the Ukrainian government as the force behind it.
This comment is interpreted as an intention to retaliate against Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky, who are waging war using this terrorist incident as an excuse.
Meanwhile, the White House dismissed the Russian Federal Investigative Committee’s statement, calling it “a nonsensical claim and incitement.”
John Kirby, strategic communications coordinator for the National Security Council (NSC), said in a written briefing that day that the Moscow terrorist incident was the sole act of IS, and that the U.S. government had sent a written warning to the Russian Security Service (FSB) about extremists’ attack on Moscow before the terrorist attack. It was revealed that it was sent to .
“It is very clear that IS alone is responsible for the attacks that occurred in Moscow last week,” Kirby said. “In fact, the United States was trying to help prevent this terrorist attack, and the Kremlin knows this.”
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2024-03-28 16:09:00
