Terrorist attack in Moscow at Crocus City Hall: Multiple Fatalities Being Reported

At least 40 killed and more than 100 wounded in Moscow concert hall attack​

Gunmen in combat gear opened fire and reportedly set off explosives at Crocus City Hall in city’s outskirts

I wonder if they'll have "The SIMS" games in their backpacks.

Putin has just declared that the attack was perpetrated by Ukraine.

Goonie said:

Putin has just declared that the attack was perpetrated by Ukraine.

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Article please.

HIM said:

Article please.

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So the terrorists were supposedly heading towards the most militarised area in Russia/Ukraine lol.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his nation in a televised address Saturday that 11 people had been detained in connection with Friday’s deadly attack on a popular Moscow concert venue, including the four gunmen who had opened fire, killing at least 133.

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Friday night attack, already one of the most deadly in modern Russian history, which left about 140,000 square feet of the venue in Krasnogorsk in flames according to Russia’s emergency services. A U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information, told The Washington Post that the United States had “no reason to doubt” the claim from the Islamic State.

The U.S. government issued a public advisory to Americans in Russia on March 7 that described the risk of a “planned terrorist attack in Moscow — potentially targeting large gatherings, to include concerts,” National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said in a statement on Friday.

“The U.S. Government also shared this information with Russian authorities in accordance with its long-standing ‘duty to warn’ policy,” Watson said.

On Friday, Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev called for a nuclear strike.

“Let’s give the civilian population of Ukraine 48 hours to leave the cities and finally end this war with the victorious defeat of the enemy. Using all forces and means,” Malofeev wrote on Telegram.

The FSB public relations office said Saturday that the assailants were “intending to cross the border into Ukraine,” where they had contacts.

Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has denied any responsibility for Friday’s attack, writing on social media that Ukraine “certainly has nothing to do with the shooting/explosions” and that “everything in this war will be decided only on the battlefield.”

Ukraine’s military intelligence agency [said Russia] would probably use the fallout to build support for their war in Ukraine and possibly to launch a second round of mobilization.

The options appear to be:

• Islamic State - But they previously taken credit for attacks they had nothing to do with.
• Anti-Putin Russians - But no obvious value in such an attack.
• Ukraine - But at complete odds with any prior tactical or strategic actions.
• False flag attack by Russian Security Forces - Which is straight out of their playbook.
• A.N.Other - Chechens doing it for real this time?

Regardless of who is responsible we can be certain Putin will make maximum mileage out of this and use it to justify all kinds of actions.

Goonie said:

Putin has just declared that the attack was perpetrated by Ukraine.

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essentialsaltes said:

Ukraine’s military intelligence agency [said Russia] would probably use the fallout to build support for their war in Ukraine and possibly to launch a second round of mobilization.

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From Putin's address to the nation Saturday:

“The criminals in cold blood, purposefully went to kill and shoot at point-blank range our citizens and our children, as the Nazis did who committed massacres in the occupied territories. They planned to stage a demonstrative execution, a bloody act of intimidation,” he said. “All perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of this crime will be fairly and unavoidably punished, whoever they are or whoever directs them.”

Obviously, he will use this attack to ramp up Russian rage toward Ukraine. The US warned Russia. Putin dimissed the warnings publicly. And perhaps he made sure the Russian security services would do nothing to stop it....for the pure propganda value of such an attack. He is certainly capable of such a crass decision.

essentialsaltes said:

“The U.S. Government also shared this information with Russian authorities in accordance with its long-standing ‘duty to warn’ policy,” Watson said.

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Putin addressed the warnings a couple weeks later, criticizing the warning three days ago as "provocative."

Per TASS, the Russian president said on March 19 the aim of "the recent provocative statements of a number of official Western structures about the possibility of terrorist attacks in Russia" was harming Russian society.

"All this resembles outright blackmail and the intention to intimidate and destabilize our society," Putin said, according to state media reporting on his remarks.

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Maybe we shouldn't have titled the memo "ISIS determined to strike in Moscow"

Goonie said:

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Of course he did.

Called it in #5 btw

Given that other attacks on western countries are declared as false flags by the usual suspects on this forum, I therefore declare this a Putin false flag attack.

He ignored warnings and denied the attack could take place, lulling Russians into a false sense of security. Now he blames it on Ukraine. Obvious false flag.

Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed warnings of a terrorist threat days before the deadliest attack in Moscow in more than two decades killed at least 60 people and wounded 145.

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Meanwhile, Anatoly Antonov, the Russian ambassador to the United States, denied a statement from a U.S. State Department official Saturday that the U.S. shared information on a possible attack with Russian authorities in accordance with its longstanding "duty to warn" policy.

"Nothing was passed," Antonov told Russian state news agency TASS while answering a question about whether any information was handed over by the U.S. side before the terrorist act.

He added, "No concrete information, nothing was transferred to us."

A U.S. State Department official said Saturday that the U.S. government had shared information on a possible attack with Russian authorities in accordance with its longstanding "duty to warn" policy.

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That's pretty rich, given that the US publicly told US citizens in Russia about the warning.

The Embassy is monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts, and U.S. citizens should be advised to avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours.

Anyone in Russia claiming that there was a warning will probably be carted off to prison.

essentialsaltes said:

Putin addressed the warnings a couple weeks later, criticizing the warning three days ago as "provocative."

Maybe we shouldn't have titled the memo "ISIS determined to strike in Moscow"

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U.S. told Russia that Crocus City Hall was possible target of attack​

More than two weeks before terrorists staged a bloody attack in the suburbs of Moscow, the U.S. government told Russian officials that Crocus City Hall, a popular concert venue, was a potential target, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The high degree of specificity conveyed in the warning underscores Washington’s confidence that the Islamic State was preparing an attack that threatened large numbers of civilians, and it directly contradicts Moscow’s claims that the U.S. warnings were too general to help preempt the assault.

The U.S. identification of the Crocus concert hall as a potential target — a fact that has not been previously reported — raises new questions about why Russian authorities failed to take stronger measures to protect the venue, where gunmen killed more than 140 people and set fire to the building.