The attacks on Russian soil by the Islamic State (IS) are not something new. The jihadist group began to claim actions in Russia in 2015, some of them without victims and others with several deaths, such as what occurred in the Urals in 2017 when the explosion of a residential building left 39 dead.
According to figures compiled by EFE, both from its own information and from databases such as the United States Department of State, ISIS has claimed responsibility for or been responsible for at least 15 attacks in Russia between 2015 and 2019, the last year in which An action by Daesh was recorded until this Friday in Moscow.
The one at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Moscow is the deadliest recorded since then, but the actions of IS in Russia have ranged from the murder of police officers, the massacre of worshipers in a church, an explosion in a supermarket, shootings or a lone wolf slashing pedestrians.
2015
– Decembre 19th. In the first attack claimed by IS on Russian soil, a man shot 11 tourists and killed one of them while they were visiting the Naryn-Kala Citadel of Derbent, in the Republic of Dagestan.
2016
– 17 of August. Two men attacked a police officer with guns and axes at a traffic checkpoint in the Moscow suburb of Balashikha, and were shot dead by officers. A police officer was seriously injured. The attack was claimed by IS.
– October 23. Two men shoot a police officer who was inspecting his car in Nizhny Novgorod, who returned fire and killed the two attackers. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that they were two “Islamic State soldiers.”
– December 17. Two suspected IS militants stabbed a police officer in Grozny, Chechnya, and used his gun and a stolen car to kill three police officers. Although ISIS did not claim responsibility for the action, the US State Department says they were recruited by a Daesh commander in Syria and videos were released in which they pledged allegiance to the group.
2017
– March 24th. A group of suspected IS affiliates attacked a Russian National Guard post in Grozny, resulting in the deaths of six soldiers and six attackers. IS did not claim responsibility, but the US attributes the attack to it.
– April 4. Two Russian police officers die in a shootout in the southern city of Astrakhan, in an action later claimed by IS.
– August 19. A 19-year-old young man from the Siberian city of Surgut wanders the streets with a knife and wounds seven people, before being killed by police. The attack, claimed by IS, occurred the day after similar attacks in Finland and Germany, where several people were stabbed.
– December 27. Explosion occurred in a supermarket of the Perekriostok chain in Saint Petersburg, with around twenty people injured. The bomb, which had a power equivalent to 200 grams of trilite, did not cause serious damage to the building. IS claimed responsibility for the attack.
2018
– February 8th. An armed man shoots indiscriminately outside a church in the town of Kizliar at a crowd of people celebrating the Russian festival of Masletnisa, similar to Carnival. Five people die and five others are injured. Claimed the same day by IS.
– May. IS claims three attacks, one in Neftekamsk, another in Nizhny Novgorod and a third in Dagestan. They claim that they attacked police officers and a Sufi shrine, with no reported deaths.
– December 31. An explosion in a residential building in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk, in the Urals, causes 39 deaths. At the time of the tragedy it was believed that the building collapsed due to a gas explosion, but days later the IS claimed responsibility, stating that it had killed 39 Russian “crusaders”.
2019
– April 8. An explosion occurs in Kolomna, near Moscow, which IS later claimed. There were supposedly no victims.
– 1st of July. A man kills a police officer with a knife at a checkpoint in the Chechen district of Achkhoy-Martonovsky. The police officer killed the attacker. IS claims responsibility for the attack. EFE
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