Russian officials accuse Ukraine of Crocus attack, Kyiv denies claim

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Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, said Ukraine was behind the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, RIA reported Tuesday.

Ukraine has repeatedly denied any involvement with the attack.

The director of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, said on Tuesday that the U.S., UK and Ukraine were behind the Moscow concert hall attack, TASS reported.

"There are irrefutable facts, common (in different countries) understanding of causes and consequences, complete disbelief even by neutral countries in the 'Ukrainian trace in the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall,'" Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the Ukrainian president's office, responded in a post on social media platform X later on Tuesday.

Bortnikov said while those who had "ordered" the attack had not been identified, the assailants were heading to Ukraine and would have been "greeted as heroes."

"We believe the action was prepared both by the radical Islamists themselves and, of course, facilitated by Western special services, and Ukraine's special services themselves have a direct connection to this," Bortnikov was cited as saying by Russian news agencies.

The White House said earlier that Ukraine had "no involvement whatsoever" in the terrorist attack, saying that the Islamic State group bears sole responsibility for the attack.

(With input from agencies)

(Cover: The Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia, March 25, 2024. /CFP)