BREAKING: An attack on a Moscow rock concert hall took place as crowds gathered for a performance by the famous Russian rock band Piknik. The crowd was attacked by camouflaged militants at Crocus City Hall music venue in Krasnogorsk, a Russian city on the western edge of Moscow.
“Special units of the Russian National Guard are working at the site of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall. A search for criminals is underway and citizens are being evacuated from the building,” Rosgvardia said.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the deadly gun attack that claimed at least 60 lives, wounding 150, and setting fire to the theatre, Russian authorities said.
ISIS fighters “attacked a large gathering … on the outskirts of the Russian capital Moscow.” The terror group took responsibility for the attack in a short statement published by ISIS-affiliated news agency Amaq on Telegram on Friday. The group did not provide evidence to support the claim.
According to eyewitnesses, the attack on Crocus came from three sides. The attackers were young, fair-haired Lyuli [Uzbekistans] in camouflage, some even wearing bulletproof vests and carrying modified weapons.
Attackers dressed in camouflage uniforms entered the building, according to a journalist for the RIA Novosti news agency at the scene. RIA Novosti reported the armed individuals “opened fire with automatic weapons” and “threw a grenade or an incendiary bomb, which started a fire.”
Russian news site Mash claims the attackers “poured flammable liquid and set fire to the upholstery of the chairs” at the concert hall.
They then “allegedly fled in a white Renault car.” The focus on this car has also been transferred to all departments in Moscow and nearby regions, says state media.
“People who were in the hall were led on the ground to protect themselves from the shooting for 15 or 20 minutes,” the RIA Novosti journalist was quoted as saying.
People started crawling out when it was safe, the journalist reported.
One of the witnesses to the shooting at Crocus told what was happening at that moment. “Men in camouflage were shooting at those who were late, panic began, people were running and hiding. They ran out straight over the corpses. We hitchhiked a couple of kilometers, we were afraid that they would also shoot on the street,” the witness said.
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov indirectly confirmed involvement in the terrorist attack. On Ukrainian television, he said that “We will give them this kind of fun more often. Is it fun in Moscow today? I think it’s a lot of fun. I would like to believe that we will arrange such fun for them more often. After all, they are “brotherly” people, and we need to please our relatives more often, go to visit them more often. So, we will go.”
The Main Intelligence Directorate in Ukraine stated that the shooting in the Moscow region is precisely the deliberate provocation of Putin’s special services, which the international community had previously warned about.
“The Kremlin tyrant began his career with this and wants to end it with the same crimes against his own citizens,” said Andrey Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the MOU, on Telegram.
Former Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, said in a statement on Telegram that those who are responsible for the attack should be “found and mercilessly destroyed,” particularly if they were inspired by “the Kyiv regime.”
An ambulance doctor discovered an explosive device on one of the corpses after the terrorist attack in Crocus. A device similar to a medical heart monitor fell out from under the clothes of one of the deceased when the body was carried into the hall for examination and identification. The doctor immediately noticed that the device looked strange and was installed incorrectly. The bomb was wrapped in tape, and a belt filled with something was wrapped around the deceased’s torso.
The security forces created a safe zone and called in sappers [bomb squad]. They determined that it was an explosive device. The IED was taken. The identity of the deceased is being established. It is possible that it was one of the terrorists.
More footage after the shooting began: People first took cover behind furniture, and when they heard approaching shots, they decided to break out the window.
UPDATE: Another 15 bodies have been found inside the shopping center, about 10 were found hiding in a restroom, where they succumbed to the smoke. Russian media now reports that 60 people were killed.
More footage of firemen carrying a body out and the concert hall filled with water:
Ukrainian commentators on Twitter and Telegram claim it is a Russian false flag, citing Russian oligarch, Aras Agalarov, who is the owner of Crocus Hall and pals with Donald Trump:
Another report claims the FSB staged a drill in 2022, in which they simulated Ukrainian soldiers taking hostages on the Crocus City Hall grounds.
Russian newspaper Kommersant, citing sources, claims that the attackers may have been wearing fake beards and mustaches, and they're pointing to them belonging to the Ukrainian-backed Russian Volunteer Corps.
Stay tuned, as more information is coming out by the hour. In the murky labyrinth of war, espionage and terrorism, things are rarely what they seem. The possibility exists that the entire event is concocted by none of the above-mentioned suspects, and it is another military-grade psychological operation to achieve nefarious goals not mentioned by either Russia or Ukraine.
Why would ISIS attack Crocus City Hall when Russia is the only global power that helps Muslim nations around the world? But then again, it was the CIA and Mossad who created ISIS:
Deep State elements within the Ukrainian and Russian government/media play the blame game, and at the same time leak info admitting responsibility to create confusion and conflict to inflame the Ukrainian and Russian people, in order to get them to agree to more war, death and destruction to further the goals of the Deep State.
The international Deep State need to keep the war going to launder money, sell weapons, rebuild Ukraine, and create a smokescreen while they work behind the scenes to push forward the Great Reset.
“False Flag operations by governments are the easiest and quickest way to persuade the population to sacrifice their own in order to achieve goals of the elite.”
― James Thomas Kesterson Jr
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ISIS my ASSIS
Best report written on the incident thus far!
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