The Moscow Times, citing Russia's Federal Security Service, reported that at least 40 people were killed and over 100 others injured in the attack.
"Picnic (Russian: ) is a Russian rock band known for its unique style which is a mixture of art rock, progressive rock and original Russian rock. The band was formed in 1978 in Leningrad by Sergey Omelnichenko, Evgeny Voloschuk, Aleksey Dobychin and Edmund Shklyarskiy. Some of their early songs are in Polish.
In 2016, the band was barred from performing in Ukraine due to their performance in Crimea after the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, because Ukraine considers Crimea to be illegally occupied.[1][2][3]
Picnic were the band set to perform at Crocus City Hall on 22 March 2024 before the 2024 Crocus City Hall attack took place.[4]"
en.wikipedia.org(band)
"Moscow shooting a deliberate provocation by Putin's special services,' says Ukraine's military intelligence" kyivindependent.com
""This is a deliberate provocation by Putin's special services, about which the international community warned," Andrii Yusov, a spokesperson of Ukraine's military Intelligence, told Ukrainska Pravda. In a post on its Telegram channel, HUR claimed the shooting is intended to justify "even tougher" attacks on Ukraine and total mobilization in Russia. "The public execution of people in Moscow should be understood as Putin's threat of an even greater escalation and expansion of the war," HUR wrote."
More from the cited article...
... Earlier this month, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow issued a security alert warning that it was "monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow," including concerts.
The March 7 statement advised U.S. citizens in the Moscow area to "avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours."
According to Reuters, the embassy issued its warning several hours after Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it "foiled an attack on a synagogue in Moscow by a cell of the militant Sunni Muslim group Islamic State." ...
From...
www.themoscowtimes.com
... Russia's Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said it opened a criminal terrorism case into the incident. ...
Not sure how much stock to put into this is at this stage, but some of the most consistently credible accounts I follow on Twitter/X for Russia/Ukraine news suggest FSB is behind it. One is Igor Sushko. x.com
@#12 ... Putin addressed the warnings a couple weeks later, criticizing the warning three days ago as "provocative."
Per TASS, the Russian president said on March 19 the aim of "the recent provocative statements of a number of official Western structures about the possibility of terrorist attacks in Russia" was harming Russian society. ...
Another view...
Information we passed to Russia was correct': Intel expert
www.newsnationnow.com
... "We have a duty to pass information we get to any country, whether that country is a friend or a foe," says Tracy Walder, a former CIA officer and FBI special agent.
Earlier this month, the State Department warned Russia it was picking up "chatter" about a possible terrorist attack that could occur at a concert. Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. of trying to intimidate and destabilize his country.
"The reality is it looks like the information we passed to them was correct," Walder says.
But the key, Walder notes, is how specific the warning from Washington was: "If we tell Russia it's any concert venue, that's really difficult to lock down. But if we provided them with much more simplified and specific information, and they chose not to act on it, then that's another story." ...
... whores...
#65 | Posted by Corky
You don't pay whores to have sex.
you pay whores to leave after.
"Keep believing whatever BS helps you to Sleep."
Says the guy who believes and repeats Putin's lies.
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