A shooting occurred in the Crocus City Hall in the suburbs of Moscow during a concert by the band Picnic. There was also an explosion in the building, after which a fire broke out, it was reported that part of the structure had collapsed. The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation in the Moscow region stated that at least 115 people died as a result of the terrorist attack. Russian officials have already called the attack a terrorist attack and detained those "involved". Washington said that there were no signs of Ukraine's involvement in the attack.
On March 22, a shooting occurred in the Crocus City Hall concert hall.
From the very beginning, it was reported that a group of people started the shooting at the concert. After that, the attackers threw a grenade or an incendiary bomb, which started a fire.
As reported by the Russian media Mash, several armed men in camouflage entered the establishment and started shooting everyone who caught their eye. The first victims were visitors to the shopping center in the lobby. Then they moved to the concert hall and continued shooting there.
More than 50 ambulance teams were dispatched to the scene.
As "Baza" reported, the security of the shopping center did not have firearms. They were armed only with batons and tasers. According to preliminary data, several guards could be killed among the first.
The capacity of the hall "Crocus City Hall" is 7300 people. At the time of the terrorist attack, it did not have time to fill completely.
Footage from inside the burnt Crocus City Hall. RosZMI writes that rescuers were able to enter the audience hall, where the temperature was high for a long time and where the epicenter of the fire was. It is reported that the roof over the audience hall has collapsed.
What is known about the terrorist attack
In the evening of Friday, March 22, in the city of Krasnohirsk in the suburbs of Moscow, several armed men in camouflage opened fire in the Crocus City Hall shopping center. Initially, 40 dead and 100 injured people were reported. Currently, it is known about 133 dead and more than 100 injured.
A number of mass media announced that the terrorist attack was organized by the ISIS group. However, other sources deny this information.
The GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine called the terrorist attack a planned and deliberate provocation by the Russian special services at the behest of Vladimir Putin.
The FSB brought charges against Kyiv. Today, the Federal Security Service of Russia said that the terrorists who were caught with Tajik passports because of the bloody tragedy in "Crocus City Hall" are related to Ukraine. They claim that after killing people, they planned to flee to Ukraine and had relevant contacts "on the Ukrainian side."
Andriy Yusov, a representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, has already commented on the "fable" of the Federal Service of the Russian Federation about the alleged Ukrainian trail.
The statement of the Russian special service is "nonsense", Told me he is in the commentary of "RBK-Ukraine". The interlocutor added that the words of the Russian special service "are aimed either at the frankly ignorant or at the zombified Russian population."
"...Imagine that after more than two years of full-scale invasion, terrorists are heading to the border regions, which are currently the most saturated with security forces, special services and actually the military, I think that comments here are superfluous." — emphasized the representative of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Ministry of Education.
Yusov noted that the accusations by Russia's FSB are "lies and an attempt by the Russian regime to drag the Ukrainian trail." According to the representative of military intelligence, the opponents started doing this from the first minutes after the terrorist attack in the concert hall.
Andriy Yusov said that the terrorist attack in Moscow was planned by the special services of the Russian Federation in order to discredit the free part of the world, including Ukraine. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin was told that all the attackers had allegedly been detained.
In the USA, they cannot yet estimate whether the warning issued by the American Embassy in Moscow in early March is related to the terrorist attack in "Crocus City Hall" that took place on March 22. This was said by the coordinator of strategic communications at the National Security Council of the White House, John Kirby, in a comment on the Fox News channel.
"We currently do not know to what extent this warning and this attack are related. But we had some concerns about the possibility of a terrorist attack in and around Moscow earlier this month." - said the official.
Kirby emphasized that Washington now needs to get more information about the event to "put the puzzle together."
Subsequently, US officials confirmed media reports that the Islamic State (ISIS) was responsible for the terrorist act at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in the Moscow region of the Russian Federation. The New York Times writes about it.
It is reported that in March, Washington received intelligence that the branch of the Islamic State, ISIS-K, based in Afghanistan, was preparing a terrorist attack in Moscow.
One American official told reporters that ISIS members are "actively operating" in Russia. For their part, representatives of the US counterterrorism service said that after a relatively long "lull", ISIS is trying to increase its external attacks, but most of its plans in Europe have been foiled.
One of the detainees told who sent them to "Crocus City Hall"
Terrorists who shot visitors in Moscow's "Crocus City Hall" were paid half a million rubles each for committing a terrorist attack. One of those detained on suspicion of this crime told about this during the preliminary interrogation.
In the video, which was probably taken immediately after the arrest, a man of Central Asian appearance said that he was subscribed to a group or channel in Telegram where he listened to "sermons". The detainee claims that about a month ago he was contacted by a "preacher's assistant", who did not give his name or surname, but offered 500 rubles for a terrorist attack. Half of the amount was transferred to his card as an advance.
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