Oleg Davygora22:59, 03/27/24

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According to him, the Russian Federation was aware of where the combat groups would come from and through which two countries they moved to its territory.

The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant General Kirill Budanov, said that Russia knew in advance about the preparation of a terrorist operation on its territory.

“At a minimum, on February 15, 2024, the Russian Federation knew about the preparations. I’ll tell you more, this information passed through the group’s intelligence department in Syria. From there it went to Moscow. And let them not tell tales that in a strange way it all materialized out of nowhere,” – he said at the Third International Forum on Strategic Communications.

According to him, Russia knew where the combat groups would come from, through which two countries they moved to the territory of the aggressor state.

“Why did they allow this to happen? There are several options. The first is, as is their custom, a fight between the “towers” ​​in order to remove several officials now. The other option is that they actually underestimated the scale of what would happen. They thought that it would be more local, and they wanted to blame Ukraine for everything,” Budanov noted.

He noted that the Kremlin has already changed versions of what happened in the Crocus City near Moscow three times, trying to somehow link the so-called “Ukrainian trace” to the terrorist attack.

“Explanations from Patrushev and Bortnikov appeared, who accused me personally and that Ukraine did all this. This is nonsense. By the way, if we touched on this painful issue, even though this is the enemy, I do not approve in principle of terrorist acts against civilians.” , – said Budanov.

The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate added that Russia itself sowed chaos and confidently believed that it could control it.

Terrorist attack in Crocus City – Russian accusations

FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov released a new portion of nonsense about the “Ukrainian trace” in the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall. According to his version, “Ukrainian intelligence services contributed to the terrorist attack, radical Islamists prepared it.”

He stated that Russia allegedly knew that “Ukraine was training militants in the Middle East,” and the terrorist attack was needed by Western intelligence services and Ukraine “to shake up the situation and create panic in society in Russia.”

Although Vladimir Putin continues to claim that Ukraine could have been involved in the terrorist attack in Moscow, which killed 139 people, the Russian leader’s inner circle does not agree with him , writes Bloomberg.

As the publication notes, according to four sources close to the Kremlin, officials were shocked by the inability of the security services to prevent the terrorist attack. The sources say almost no one they know in Russia’s political and business elite believes Ukraine was behind the attack.

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