Ukraine & NATO Trying To Link Moscow Attack To ISIS In Afghanistan, Says Russian Official

Nikolai Patrushev, Russia’s Secretary of the National Security Council, said that the Ukrainian army and NATO are resorting to terrorist tactics due to their inability on the battlefield.

He mentioned that Ukraine and NATO are trying to tell Russia that the assault on Moscow could potentially be the work of the ISIS branch based in Afghanistan.

Following the armed assault on a concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow, resulting in numerous casualties, ISIS claimed responsibility for it. US officials attributed this attack to ISIS-Khorasan, situated in Afghanistan.

Subsequently, Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, attributed the attack on Crocus City Hall to "radical Islamists”.

At the nineteenth meeting of National Security Advisors of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Secretary of Russia's National Security Council said that the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall was well organised. He emphasised that the attack was accompanied by "broad and pre-organised Western media coverage”.

The Russian official added that the swift identification of the supporters of the terrorist attack in Crocus City is very important.

Regarding ISIS' claim of responsibility for the attack on Crocus City Hall, he said that both ISIS and other terrorist groups have been created by the United States

Previously, Putin had attributed the attack to "radical Islamists," whom he described as adversaries of the Islamic world for centuries due to their ideology.

He further remarked that the United States is employing various channels to persuade that Ukraine played no part in this "bloody terrorist" attack, insisting instead that the perpetrators were "followers of Islam" and members of the proscribed ISIS organisation in Russia.