First it was Vladimir Putin, shortly after the bloody attack against the Crocus City Hall concert hall, on the outskirts of Moscow, and this Sunday it was the Russian Foreign Ministry that accused Ukraine of being behind this and other attacks and has demanded the arrest and handover of the head of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), Vasili Maliuk, and others allegedly involved in these actions.
“The ministry submitted to the Ukrainian authorities the demand, within the framework of the convention on terrorist bombings and the convention on the financing of terrorism, for the immediate arrest and handover of all persons involved in the attacks,” he noted. Russian diplomacy in a statement.
Moscow affirms that the serious attack against the concert hall on March 22, which shocked the entire world, “is not the first terrorist attack against our country in recent times” and points out that investigations point to the involvement of Ukraine, although without offering specific data.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, and U.S. officials said they had intelligence showing it was carried out by the network’s Afghan branch, the Islamic State Khorasan, or ISIS-K.
Russian investigators said last week they had found evidence that the concert hall gunmen were linked to “Ukrainian nationalists.” kyiv denies any connection to the attack.
