Follow-up – Al-Rashid
Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Farhan Haq, stated that the international organization cannot verify or confirm information about the Ukrainian influence in the terrorist attack on “Crocus.”
Haq said in a press conference on Tuesday, in response to a journalist’s request to comment on the statement of the Director of the Russian Federal Security Service, Alexander Bortnikov: “We have no information to verify or confirm this.”
Bortnikov had stated earlier today that the preliminary information reported by the detainees in the case of the terrorist attack on “Crocus” confirms the existence of the Ukrainian trace.
As Bortnikov previously explained, it has not yet been determined who requested this crime to be carried out, but the Federal Security Service is studying who organized the attack and recruited its perpetrators.
According to him, the terrorist attack served the Western and Ukrainian intelligence services in order to destabilize the situation in Russia and spread panic in society.
The attack occurred in the Crocus City complex hall on Friday evening, March 22. Several men wearing camouflage clothing stormed the building and opened fire on those present, after which several explosions were heard and a fire broke out. According to the latest data published by the Investigation Committee, 139 people were victims of the attack.
