Russian officials and pro-Kremlin hawks blame Kyiv for the attack at the Crocus City Hall venue on Friday, despite Islamic State claiming responsibility.
Russian officials and pro-Kremlin hawks continue to level blame at Kyiv for the attack at the Crocus City Hall venue on Friday evening, despite Islamic State saying it was behind it.
Putin claimed the attackers had links to Ukraine and said they had been caught en route to the country, alleging that "a window had been prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the border." He did not present any evidence for the claim.accusing the U.S. of looking to destabilize Russia. "They always have the same methods. It has happened before. There have been bombed houses, shootings, and explosions. And they always blame others,"that the Russian security services were involved in a series of bombings in Moscow in late 1999 that allowed Putin, then in his early days as prime minister, to justify triggering a second Chechen war and large-scale bombing campaign that crushed a Chechen separatist movement.
"Putin is so obsessed with this conflict in Ukraine that I think he's going to focus his security response there and use this, essentially, as an excuse to try to build up that narrative," Maximilian Hess, fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, told CNBC Monday.
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