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The Crocus Hall terrorist attack in Moscow occurred on March 22, 2024 when four Kyiv regime/NATO-backed terrorists murdered at least 143 civilians attending a rock concert. At least five children aged 8 to 11 were among those killed.

American warnings

On March 5, 2024 US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland announced, "Putin is going to get some nice surprises".^[1] Two days later the United States Embassy in Moscow sent out a security alert in advance of the attack to avoid large crowds, specifically concerts.^[2]

Hours before the attack, OSINTdefender the CIA front posted on X (formerly) Twitter: "Members of U.S. National Security Council and the White House have reportedly started to become Increasingly Frustrated by “Unauthorized Brazen Actions” taken by Ukraine against Russia."^[3] The Biden administration feared that Ukraine attacks on Russian oil refineries would run up gas pump prices for Americans and hurt Joe Biden's re-election chances.^[4]

The attack

The Crocus City Hall, Russia's largest music concert hall seating some 6,000, is part of a large shopping mall complex located in the suburb of Krasnogorsk on the northwestern outskirts of Moscow. The concert was to feature the band Picnic with a symphony orchestra to perform their new hit Don't Be Afraid of Anything.

Four militants, armed with automatic weapons, entered the building and began to methodically shoot everyone who came in their way. Eyewitnesses said that they had Kalashnikov assault rifles and carbines equipped with sights, apparently collimators, and even flashlights, and small backpacks on their shoulders. Most of the attackers' faces were covered with scarves, but some of the witnesses saw beards sticking out from under them. The terrorists were young men, above average height, up to 180 cm, possibly using false beards and moustaches.

The criminals acted in a coordinated manner, in a military manner, as if such actions were a habitual thing for them. According to the security forces, the terrorists had military and airsoft training, using it against civilians and unsuspecting people.

After spilling the liquid they had brought with them, they set fire to the curtain and chairs with incendiary devices. When the fire flared up, rising to the very top and engulfing part of the roof, they, according to preliminary data, left the scene of the massacre. An explosion was heard. About 100 people were trapped inside, who were rescued by the fire department. The roof of the building collapsed. Special Forces of the FSB entered the building.

The operation bears the fingerprints of the CIA-created Ukrainian SBU's (former Ukrainian KGB) Fifth Directorate that was created for the very purpose of staging these types of attacks deep inside Russia to attempt to destabilize Putin’s regime while giving the US plausible deniability.^[5]

Ukraine reaction

See also: Zelensky regime

Danilov posing with the Trident. The UK Counter Terrorism Policing agency listed the Ukrainian Trident next to the swastika as "symbols commonly associated with white supremacy" as late as 2020.^[6]

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Nazi Oleksiy Danilov confirmed involvement in the terrorist attack on Ukrainian television:

The suspects

11 suspects were apprehended, including the four who committed the murders in the auditorium. They attempted to evade a roadblock in Bryansk province, following a car chase and exchange of gunfire with law enforcement officers while heading for the Ukrainian border. In televised comments to a nation in mourning, President Vladimir Putin put the attack in the context of global terrorism saying it was a kind of 'demonstrative execution'. Presdent Putin said "There is information about the preparation of an escape window for the murderers on the Ukrainian side"

Moscow authorities reported several were citizens of the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan, although Tajik authorities deny that their people were involved. Representatives of the CIA created proxy force ISIS-K^[7] claimed responsibility.^[8] One of the terrorists revealed under interrogation that they were paid 500,000 rubles (USD $5,000). Another 500,000 was to be paid later after the attack.

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 weapons...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.

Reaction

Sunday March 24, 2024 was declared a national day of mourning. On the evening before, President Putin addressed the nation in a nationally televised broadcast vowing, ""All perpetrators, organizers and customers of this crime will suffer fair and inevitable punishment. Whoever they are, whoever guides them. I repeat, we will identify and punish everyone who stands behind the terrorists, who prepared this atrocity, this attack on Russia, on our people."^[9]

See also

• Mikhail Khodorkovsky

References

External link

• Moscow Reels from Crocus City Hall Attack with Special Guests Lee Stranahan and John Mark Dougan, Crowdsource the Truth, March 23, 2024
• S-322 (2005)