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It began with hints. Intimation.

Now, it's no holds barred accusations.

The Russian authorities are aggressively pushing the line that Ukraine and the West were behind last month's Crocus City concert hall massacre outside Moscow which left 145 people dead.

The Islamic State group quickly claimed responsibility for the attack. But soon after the suspected gunmen were detained President Vladimir Putin hinted at a Ukrainian connection.

At the weekend Russian state TV broadcast interrogation videos of the four suspects, all citizens of Tajikistan. One of the men said on camera that the post-attack plan had been "to head towards Kyiv".

Their words must be taken with extreme caution. During a court appearance after their arrest the men showed signs of torture.

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[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have worked security long enough to know most perceived security is an illusion. Also, it might be really easy to find a few non-white people in that part of Russia headed away from Moscow at a fast pace.

Russian stunts are notoriously bad and Occam's Razor absolutely applies. It would be magnitudes easier to hire a few Russians to act like Ukrainians and do the same stunt. Blaming Ukraine would be much easier in that case.

Conspiracy theories aren't my thing, especially when they are just vomited out with little logic.