Sputnik
There is still not much information about how the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall was carried out, but United States authorities have already separated Ukraine, which seems suspicious for a former CIA officer.
Larry Johnson, a retired CIA intelligence officer and former State Department official, believes the United States had advance information about the March 22 terrorist attack in Moscow, Russia, and did not share it with the Eurasian country.
“They came out and said that the White House, Biden and the intelligence community were very concerned about what they called the brazenness in the attacks justified by Ukraine, so I clearly believe that the US had knowledge about what was going to happen and he did not share that with Russia,” Johnson told Sputnik.
The former US official said that he found it strange how quickly the United States came out to separate Ukraine from the attack that left a preliminary toll of 40 dead and around 145 injured on the night of March 22.
“The strangest thing is that the State Department immediately came out and declared that it was not Ukraine. We still don’t know how many shooters there were. “We don’t know what the weapons were,” added the retired CIA intelligence officer.
Johnson insisted that when the United States government had already demarcated Ukraine, there was still almost no information about the attack, the weapons, and much less the perpetrators who killed dozens of innocent people.
At least 40 dead
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) reported that the attack claimed the lives of at least 40 people and injured 145, while, according to Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko, a total of 60 adults and a minor, are in serious condition.
On March 22, gunmen dressed in camouflage clothing opened fire on attendees at a concert by the band Picnic at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in the Moscow region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was informed of what happened at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in the first minutes of the shooting, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov.
“In the first minutes of what happened at Crocus City Hall the president was informed of the shooting,” Peskov told reporters.
A part of the roof of the Crocus City Hall concert hall, on the outskirts of Moscow, where a shooting and a fire broke out shortly before, has begun to collapse, according to the Sputnik Agency.
The Russian Ministry of Health informed this agency that more than 50 ambulance teams were sent to Krasnogorsk to provide medical assistance to the victims.
While Alexei Kuznetsov, advisor to the Russian Minister of Health, said that the first wounded in the attack were hospitalized.
“The first wounded in the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall in Moscow began to enter medical facilities,” Kuznetsov told reporters.
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