RUSSIA ACCUSES UKRAINIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE OF TERRORIST ATTACK AT CROCUS CITY ON APRIL 22

Fri 24 May 2024:

Head of the Russian Federal Security Service Aleksandr Bortnikov on Friday accused Ukraine of direct involvement in the April 22 terrorist attack on Crocus City concert hall in the Moscow region.

“The investigation is underway, but it is already safe to say that the military intelligence of Ukraine is directly involved in this attack,” Bortnikov said at a meeting of the heads of the Commonwealth of Independent States security agencies and special services.

Bortnikov stressed that all circumstances of the crime will be established and all guilty parties — punished.

On March 22, gunmen entered the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, and sprayed bullets at random on innocent people, killing at least 144 and injuring more than 382. Russia has charged four people for their direct involvement in the attack.

According to investigators, after committing the crime, the suspects were heading toward Ukraine, where they hoped to find shelter and evade justice.

Russia Claims Fresh Advances

Russian strikes on Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv killed at least seven people with dozens more wounded, authorities said Thursday, as Moscow claimed fresh advances on the front line.

The northeast border region surrounding Kharkiv has become the latest flashpoint of the war after Russian forces launched a surprise ground offensive this month, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents.

The barrage of more than a dozen strikes came as Moscow said it captured Andriivka in the industrial Donetsk region, one of the few villages Ukraine wrested back in its lacklustre counteroffensive last summer.

Kyiv’s forces are suffering manpower and ammunition shortages and struggling to hold off Russian attacks.

President Volodymyr Zelensky described the barrage as “brutal” and said Russia was “taking advantage” of Ukraine’s lack of air defence systems to launch deadly attacks on towns and cities at his country’s border.

The regional governor said seven people had been killed and that another 20 were wounded. A second strike later in the nearby town of Dergachi left another 13 wounded, he added.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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