On Crocus City Hall Terrorist Attack

Since 2016, the Ukrainian regime has been consistently increasing the attempts to commit terrorist attacks and acts of sabotage against military and civilian sites in Russia.

With the direct, primarily technical, support of Western intelligence services, they have been obtaining sensitive intelligence information, planting agents, and recruiting perpetrators and accomplices. They have been perfecting their techniques and expanding the scope of hostile actions as they went from one-off targeted attacks to openly violent mass-scale terrorist attacks with unlimited fallout.

When the special military operation began, the Ukrainian special services’ terrorist activity has taken on an unprecedented, aggressive, and daring nature and engulfed almost all territory of the Russian Federation. In fact, the ongoing terrorism is viewed as an integral part of the combined military operation.

The attacks target the railway network and infrastructure using unmanned aircraft in the border areas and deep in the country. Acts of sabotage against strategic military and civilian targets are carried out. They focus on destroying critical infrastructure facilities, such as the Crimean Bridge, petroleum and gas pipelines, airfields, oil refineries, and nuclear power plants in Kursk, Smolensk, Leningrad Region and Zaporozhye.

The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Defence Ministry and the Security Service of Ukraine are behind the acts of sabotage that use light aviation, attack UAVs, and naval systems. Western intelligence services provide all-round intelligence and resource support.

The Military Intelligence and the Security Service use recruited persons and trained agents from among the Ukrainian citizens and residents of new regions to perpetrate the attacks. They also enlist the people who had left for Russia, including the ones who had left before the special military operation began.

In order to create the proper ideological foundation for radicalising certain groups of the population and coordinating terrorist attacks, Ukrainian psychological centres have deployed an aggressive propaganda campaign and massive recruitment efforts among young people, radicals, people on the fringes of society and people with mental conditions, as well as people with social and economic problems.

Footage of arsons of military enlistment offices and police stations committed by everyday people like pensioners, teachers, housewives, young people and minors circulated in the media shows that there are no age or social restrictions in recruiting perpetrators.

Fraud is used widely. Socially vulnerable individuals are provoked to take out loans and transfer money to “safe accounts,” and are subsequently encouraged to commit crimes under the pretext of special services operations or blackmailed to do so.

Quick money schemes are used in a variety of online messengers. People are encouraged to commit terrorist attacks and acts of sabotage, arson of military enlistment offices, police precincts, administrative buildings, or to damage or to destroy railway infrastructure. An image of anonymous criminal acts that go unpunished is being promoted. Moreover, as a rule, no money is paid for the crimes committed by Russian citizens.

The terrorist movements controlled by Ukrainian security services such as Columbine and Maniacs. Cult of Murder that rely on hatred and mass killings have stepped up their activities. The recruiting psychologists controlled by Western intelligence services are operating in Ukraine, Poland and the Czech Republic.

The Kiev-controlled terrorist organisations, Russian Volunteer Corps and the Russian Freedom Legion, formed from the people with anti-Russian or pro-Ukrainian views, are directly involved in acts of sabotage and terrorist attacks. Officially, Kiev disassociates itself from these nationalist formations, calling them guerrillas and disavowing their ties with the Ukrainian forces. At the same time, these terrorist entities are, in fact, part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Military Intelligence.

The strategic objective is to inflict a military-political defeat on Russia, as well as maximum economic losses, destabilise the situation in the country and provoke protests.

The barbaric murders of Russian journalists Darya Dugina and Maxim Fomin (Vladlen Tatarsky), and Prosecutor-General of the Lugansk People’s Republic Sergey Gorenko served the same purposes. This also concerns attempts on the lives of writer Zakhar Prilepin, the heads of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions Yevgeny Balitsky and Vladimir Saldo, Interior Minister of the Lugansk People’s Republic Igor Kornet and First Deputy Head of the Kherson Region Vitaly Bulyuk. Law-enforcement agencies have prevented terrorist attacks on Margarita Simonyan, Konstantin Malafeyev and Vladimir Solovyov, as well as the leadership of the Republic of Crimea and the military-civilian administrations of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasily Malyuk discussed complicity in some of these attacks during his interview with ICTV television channel.

Law-enforcement agencies have obtained strong evidence of Ukrainian security services using psycho-chemical and general-purpose poison gases, banned by international conventions, while preparing attempts on the lives of the heads of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions and participants in the special military operation.

Large-scale daily attacks on the long-suffering Donetsk and the border region of Belgorod have claimed the lives of dozens of ordinary people, including women, old people and children. This is also part of a terror campaign unleashed by Ukraine.

Russian security agencies have thwarted a series of multi-episode terrorist attacks in Belgorod by Ukrainian special services, targeting residential buildings and law-enforcement agencies. These attempts aimed to disrupt the presidential elections in the Russian Federation in March 2024, and were accompanied by an aggressive information campaign aimed at stoking panic among the population.

At the same time, Ukraine’s armed forces, together with the militants from Ukrainian nationalist battalions and terrorist organisations, the Russian Freedom Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps, made multiple unsuccessful attempts to breach the Russian state border in the Belgorod sector of the Russian-Ukrainian border, resulting in civilian casualties. 

Contacts have been established between several Russian opposition figures and the leaders of undercover gangs of militants from the Caucasus, including Akhmed Zakayev, who is wanted by Interpol, with the Security Service of Ukraine and Western intelligence agencies. The rhetoric of these fugitive, non-systemic protest politicians clearly indicates their involvement. Their representatives openly voice their support for the Kiev regime. They openly form and finance nationalist units like the Separate Special Weapons and Tactics Battalion of the Armed Forces of the Chechnya-Ichkeria Republic. They also call for Western military intervention, and desire Russia’s defeat. They set up pseudo-government organisations in exile with the support of European politicians. Under the guise of anti-colonialism, they have begun collaborating with the Caucasus and South Caucasus diasporas in order to unleash terrorist attacks in southern Russia from Ukrainian territory.

Simultaneously, they are trying to incite inter-ethnic strife, xenophobia and nationalism in Russian society to initiate extremism-motivated conflicts.

A distinct focus of Ukrainian security services is to engage supporters of radical Islam based in Russia in terrorist activities.

They are orchestrating the recruitment of militants from international terrorist organisations in Syria, Türkiye, the Balkan region, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Central Asia to participate in hostilities alongside the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including in nationalist battalions such as those named after Sheikh Mansur, Imam Shamil, and Dzhokhar Dudayev. With the coordination of British intelligence agencies, Ukrainian diplomatic missions abroad are actively recruiting potential terrorists from other countries.

Therefore, it has become evident that the Kiev regime, backed by the collective West, is visibly increasing its terrorist activity.

Ukrainian security services have transitioned from traditional covert methods to open and large-scale acts of terror.

Meanwhile, the high level of trust the majority of Russians have in state authorities, as well as the unity and confidence in the correctness of the political and economic course demonstrated during the Russian presidential elections prompted the Ukrainian security services to escalate their tactics.

Striving to generate a public outcry and sow discord in Russia, to discredit the government, foster defeatist attitudes and despair in society, and instil widespread fear and panic, the Kiev regime decided to go big. With the approval of the West, they decided to resort to drastic measures regardless of the potential scale and consequences. Simultaneously, they are shifting the focus in the internal Ukrainian agenda, diverting public attention from setbacks on the front lines and the growing dissatisfaction among the people in Ukraine.

As a result, a terrorist attack was orchestrated and executed – a cold-blooded, ruthless slaughter of hundreds of innocent people at the Crocus City shopping centre. The chosen method aimed to evoke a maximum emotional response, leaving no one untouched. The perpetrators, disguised as members of the international terrorist organisation Islamic State - Khorasan Province, were recruited labour migrants from Tajikistan, who were under the influence of drugs during the attack.

The terrorist attack was meticulously plotted, with weapons and tools of terror procured in advance. Escape routes for the terrorists through the Russian-Ukrainian border were planned out.

According to the testimonies of the detained terrorists, following the attack, they were instructed to head towards the state border in the Bryansk Region, where they would set fire to the vehicle in a wooded area and inform their handler, who, acting through the Ukrainian security services, would help them cross the border and transport them to Kiev. The terrorists were promised one million roubles each for executing the terrorist attack.

At the same time as the criminals were heading towards the border, the presence of Ukrainian military and security services personnel was detected near the villages of Chuikovka and Sopych in the Shostkinsky District of the Sumy Region. They were observed using demining equipment, apparently attempting to create a corridor for the terrorist group to cross the border.

All the details surrounding this barbarous terrorist attack will be thoroughly investigated. The masterminds, organisers, and accomplices, regardless of their whereabouts, will be identified, unmasked and will receive just punishment.

Meanwhile, the March 22, 2024 events clearly showed that the Kiev regime and its foreign curators lack moral and ethical standards. Europe and the United States are not hiding the fact that they are using Ukraine to advance their own agenda. Western official and diplomatic circles openly demonstrate their revanchist sentiments and talk about a “historical moment” that will allow them to inflict a total defeat on Russia without directly participating in the hostilities, and to compensate for the “reputational losses from the Russians dating back to Napoleon and the Third Reich.” The collective West openly supplies Ukraine with weapons, explosives, equipment and intelligence for it to engage in terrorism, trains spec ops operatives and terrorists, and plots and plans attacks.

Considering the methods used at the level of official government bodies, the specifics of public administration, socio-political characteristics of society and external relations, the Kiev regime and the Ukrainian security services display the attributes of a terrorist entity at the government level, which is above and beyond humanistic concepts of what the state and society are all about. In fact, we are witnessing the creation of an aggressive ISIS-like terrorist regime, with the direct participation of the United States and a US-controlled pack of satellites, in the centre of Europe.