In the swirl of confusion and terror, speculation also grew that the gunmen who carried out the mass shooting may have been linked to the Ukraine war, such as a so-called 'false flag' operation by Russia that it could pin on Kyiv to garner more domestic support.
As Russia reels from a devastating attack at a concert hall, Kyiv is worried Vladimir Putin will exploit the bloodshed to escalate his war in Ukraine regardless of who is to blame. On Friday night, the extremist Islamist militant group Islamic State claimed responsibility for the mass shooting that left at least 40 people dead and dozens more wounded in a Moscow suburb. But the Kremlin has yet formally to accuse any organisation, nation or individual.
It is ready to kill its own citizens for political purposes, just as it has killed thousands of Ukrainian civilians during the war against Ukraine as a result of missile attacks, artillery shelling and torture.' As well as waging a war against Ukraine, Russia also has problems with Islamist extremism - an issue which it had in the past cooperated with the UK and the US on, though that has long since stopped as relations froze.
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