RIA Novosti reported a video released showing one of the arrested terrorists, “The suspect gave his name, which sounds similar to Fariddun Shamsutdin, as well as his date of birth - 17 September 1998...He had arrived from [[Turkey]] on 4 March [2024]...The detainee said that his handlers contacted him a month ago via [[Telegram]] and provided him with [[weapon]]s...He was given the task of killing all the people in the hall and was offered about a million rubles for this...The defendant added that he committed the [[crime]] after a conversation with the preacher’s assistant". A second video showed another captured terrorist also confessing he received orders via the Telegram messaging service.
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[[File:Bondi Ratcliffe Patel Gabbard.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Bondi, Ratcliffe, Patel and Gabbard await the arrival of Mohammad Sharifullah.]]
In March 2022, the recruitment of [[mercenaries]] by the Ukrainian embassies in Tajikistan and other countries were reported. Calls to join the "resistance to Russia" and join the ranks of the Ukrainian "International Legion" were openly published on the websites of the Ukrainian diplomatic department.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/03/zelensky-ukraine-16000-foreign-volunteers-russia/ Zelensky says 16,000 foreigners have volunteered to fight for Ukraine against Russian invasion], By Timothy Bella and Annabelle Timsit, ''Washington Post'', March 3, 2022. </ref>