The United States passed on information to Russia that the Crocus City Hall concert hall could be a potential terrorist target. This happened two weeks before the attack, which took place on March 22. This is reported by The Washington Post (WP), citing sources among American officials, UNN reports.
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The high degree of specificity in the warning underscores Washington's belief that the Islamic State was preparing an attack that threatened a large number of civilians, and it directly contradicts Moscow's claims that the U.S. warnings were too general to help prevent the attack.
The US designation of the Crocus Concert Hall as a potential target is a fact that has not been previously reported.
According to the newspaper's sources, Washington handed over the data to Moscow a day before the US Embassy in Russia published a public notice about a possible terrorist threat in the Russian capital, which appeared on March 7.
One of the newspaper's sources said that the United States also warned of a possible attack on a synagogue in Moscow.
After the attack in Crocus, US National Security Council spokesman Adrian Watson confirmed that Washington had shared information with Moscow about possible attacks.