A planned provocation by Russian special services on Putin's orders: GUR on terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall near Moscow
Kyiv • UNN
A terrorist attack takes place in a shopping center near Moscow, which Ukrainian intelligence believes to be a planned provocation by Russian special services on Putin's orders to justify further escalation of the war against Ukraine and mobilization in Russia.
The terrorist attack in Moscow was a planned and deliberate provocation by Russian special services on Putin's orders. Its purpose is to justify even harsher attacks on Ukraine and total mobilization in Russia. This is stated in a statement released by the Main Intelligence Directorate regarding the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, UNN reports.
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The intelligence agency noted that the ruble execution of people in Moscow should be understood as Putin's threat to further escalate and expand the war.
"Peskov's statement about the 'war' shortly before the attack was just a false start to a carefully planned Kremlin special operation.
Putin has extensive experience in organizing such terrorist attacks as a way to strengthen his own power, starting with the bombing of houses on the Kashirskoye highway. Just like then, today's action to intimidate Russians will be a pretext for maximum "tightening of the screws" on Russia itself," the statement reads.
The DIU noted that the Kremlin could accuse Ukraine of organizing the terrorist attack and use the shooting of its own citizens as a pretext for even more brutal attacks on civilian infrastructure and the killing of Ukrainian civilians. Today's strike on Ukraine's civilian infrastructure is another link in the escalation initiated by Putin.
"Putin has repeatedly tried to intimidate the West, including by using nuclear weapons. Therefore, this terrorist attack can be used as another "reason" to intensify aggression.
However, the unimpeded movement of a group of militants with assault rifles in the center of Moscow, as well as a lot of other indisputable evidence, indicate that the shooting in Crocus City Hall was organized by the Russian special services. International embassies have also warned of the impending terrorist attack," the statement reads.
The GUR added that "it is obvious to the whole world that the terrorist attack in Moscow is another crime of Putin's to maintain his power.
Recall
On Friday, March 22, a shooting broke out at the Crocus City Hall shopping center near Moscow . Eyewitnesses reported a large number of fatalities.
