Global | 2024.03.29 01:39
[뉴욕=뉴스핌]Reporter 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, belonged 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 about financial transactions, we found evidence of links with Ukrainian nationalists,” it was 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 the financing of terrorism is in custody.
Russian judicial authorities arrested 11 people after the terrorist incident in Moscow, and they are investigating with eight of them in custody.
The site of the Moscow terrorist attack [사진=로이터 뉴스핌] 2024.03.25 kwonjiun@newspim.com
After the terrorist attack, the Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack, which the US specifically identified as being led by the Islamic State of Khorasan (ISIS-K), an IS branch of Afghanistan.
However, Russian officials, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, have claimed that the West, including Ukraine, the United States, and the United Kingdom, are behind this incident.
In particular, President Putin said on the 25th that he knew the terrorist attack in 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 to the Ukrainian government as the force that behind. it is.
This comment is interpreted as an intention to take revenge against Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is waging a war using this terrorist incident as an excuse.
Meanwhile, the White House rejected the Russian Federal Investigative Committee’s statement, calling it an “insensitive allegation and incitement.”
John Kirby, the National Security Council’s (NSC) strategic communications coordinator, said in a written briefing that day that the Moscow terrorist incident was the sole act of IS, and that the US government had sent a written warning to the Russian Security Service. FSB) about an extremist attack on Moscow before the terrorist attack. It was revealed that he was sent to .
“It is very clear that IS is solely responsible for the attacks that took place in Moscow last week,” said Kirby. “Indeed, the United States was trying to prevent this terrorist attack, and the Kremlin knows this.”
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